VIENNA (Reuters) – Talks between Austria’s two largest centrist parties to form a coalition government without the far-right Freedom Party have failed, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Saturday, a day after the liberal Neos party left the elections. talks.
“I will resign as chancellor and as leader of the (conservative) People’s Party in the coming days and allow an orderly transition,” Nehammer said in a video statement on X, after coalition talks with the Social Democrats.