(9 Oct 2024)
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Vienna, Austria – 09 October 2024
1. Wide of Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen arriving for statement, pan right to follow
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexander Van der Bellen, Austrian president: “This time we have an unusual case. It’s completely new that there is an election winner with whom apparently none of the other parties want to govern. The OVP excludes a cooperation with an FPO under Herbert Kickl. SPO, Neos and Greens categorically don’t want to govern with the FPO. All of them have made clear public statements in that regard.”
3. Close of Austrian imperial eagle
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexander Van der Bellen, Austrian president: “I am asking the leaders of the three strongest parties – Herbert Kickl, Karl Nehammer, Andreas Babler – to start talks with each other on the level of the party chairmen and to clear up whether, and what, mutual cooperation would be conceivable in principle.”
5. Mid of camera operator
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexander Van der Bellen, Austrian president: “We need clarity and if there is something we don’t need it’s junk miles. So-called exploratory talks that are condemned to failure from the outset won’t help Austria. That won’t bring Austria forward.”
7. Wide of Van der Bellen leaving
STORYLINE:
Austria’s president on Wednesday asked the country’s three strongest political parties to hold talks on possible cooperation after an election won by the far-right Freedom Party, but dispensed with a tradition of giving the winner the task of trying to form the new government after others said they wouldn’t work with it.
President Alexander Van der Bellen asked Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl, current Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the conservative Austrian People’s Party and Andreas Babler of the center-left Social Democrats, to report back to him at the end of next week.
Kickl, a 55-year-old with a taste for provocation who has been the Freedom Party leader since 2021, could be its chief impediment to taking power this time.
If Kickl can’t form a government, the alternative would be a coalition led by the People’s Party with the center-left Social Democrats and likely the smaller liberal Neos party.
The Freedom Party finished first in the Sept. 29 election with 28.8% of the vote, ahead of Nehammer’s People’s Party, which took 26.3%. The Social Democrats were third with 21.1%. The outgoing governing coalition of Nehammer’s party and the environmentalist Greens lost its majority.
Whoever leads the next government will need to build a coalition to have a parliamentary majority. Nehammer and his party have said they wouldn’t work with Kickl in government. The other three parties in the new parliament have said they wouldn’t work with the Freedom Party at all.
The president, who ultimately will have to swear in a new government, said he wants “clarity for Austria” on whether all concerned mean what they have said.
There is no formal deadline for forming a new government.
AP Video by Philipp Jenne
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