President Van der Bellen listened to the opposition in the Austrian elections, which were won by the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ). He gave the task of forming a government to the conservative People’s Party instead of the FPÖ, which was founded by a former Nazi MP.
Following the elections in which far-right parties won in Austria, the responsibility of forming a government fell to the conservatives.
President Alexander Van der Bellen announced that he gave the task of forming a coalition government to Prime Minister Karl Nehammer, who leads the conservative People’s Party, instead of the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), which won the election. In his speech, Van der Bellen said that since no one wanted to form a government with the Freedom Party led by Herbert Kickl, he asked Nehammer, whose party came in second in the election, to negotiate with the Social Democrats, who came in third, to form a coalition.
Following the announcement of the results, FPO party leader Herbert Kickl and the leaders of other parties in parliament faced off in a television studio.
The leaders rejected Kickl’s coalition offer.
Kickl, the leader of the FPÖ, founded by a former Nazi MP, says he wants to be a “Volkskanzler” (People’s Chancellor), a term the Nazis used for Adolf Hitler.
