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Vienna, Austria – 5 Jan 2025
1. STILL of Austrian People’s Party (OeVP) Secretary General Christian Stocker
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ARCHIVE: Vienna – 29 September 2024
2. Wide of Stocker on stage
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Christian Stocker, Secretary General:
"And if someone had told us, on election night, the People’s Party, as it is now predicted, has taken 26% plus to the 27 right now, I would have taken it straight away and I would have believed it was number one."
4. Wide of Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on stage
5. Mid of Nehammer speaking
STORYLINE:
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Sunday announced that he would meet with far-right politician Herbert Kickl as speculation grows that he will ask the Freedom Party leader to form a government.
His statement came as the Austrian People’s Party nominated its general secretary, Christian Stocker as the country’s interim leader, after Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced his intention to resign.
Van der Bellen made the announcement after meeting with Nehammer and others at his presidential palace.
Stocker addressed reporters on Sunday afternoon and confirmed that he had been appointed “unanimously” by his party to serve as interim leader.
Austria was thrown into political turmoil on Friday after the liberal party Neos pulled out of coalition talks with the the People’s Party and the Social Democrats.
On Saturday the two remaining parties, who have only a one-seat majority in Parliament, made another attempt to form a government — but that also ended in failure after a few hours, with negotiators saying they were unable to agree on how to repair the budget deficit.
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