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AUSTRIA: Liberal NEOS Leave Coalition Talks Saying 'No Progress Possible"

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The liberal NEOS party formally withdrew from coalition talks with Chancellor Karl Nehammer's conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPÖ), citing lack of progress and inflexibility in negotiations. This leaves the ÖVP and SPÖ with the option of seeking to form a gov't with the environmentalist Greens, or forming a two-party 'grand coalition'. 

  • Reuters reports comments from NEOS chair Beate Meinl-Reisinger claiming "In recent days we have had the impression that in central issues in the coalition talks no more progress could be made." Meinl-Reisinger: "Despite intensive negotiations, no breakthrough could be made in coalition talks with the two other parties, and they often said no to our proposals."
  • The ÖVP has governed with the Greens since 2019, but relations have frayed and a poor performance by the latter in the 2024 election was seen as a possible end to their inclusion in gov't. An ÖVP-SPÖ coalition would hold 92 seats in the 183-member National Council, exactly on the majority threshold. Meinl-Reisinger says that the NEOS "assured other parties that in parliament we will support those plans that we have already agreed on".
  • The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) won for the first time a plurality in the September federal election. However, it was unable to find willing allies to form a governing coalition. Early opinion polling already indicates a strengthening in support for the FPÖ having been shut out of gov't. 
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The liberal NEOS party formally withdrew from coalition talks with Chancellor Karl Nehammer's conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPÖ), citing lack of progress and inflexibility in negotiations. This leaves the ÖVP and SPÖ with the option of seeking to form a gov't with the environmentalist Greens, or forming a two-party 'grand coalition'. 

  • Reuters reports comments from NEOS chair Beate Meinl-Reisinger claiming "In recent days we have had the impression that in central issues in the coalition talks no more progress could be made." Meinl-Reisinger: "Despite intensive negotiations, no breakthrough could be made in coalition talks with the two other parties, and they often said no to our proposals."
  • The ÖVP has governed with the Greens since 2019, but relations have frayed and a poor performance by the latter in the 2024 election was seen as a possible end to their inclusion in gov't. An ÖVP-SPÖ coalition would hold 92 seats in the 183-member National Council, exactly on the majority threshold. Meinl-Reisinger says that the NEOS "assured other parties that in parliament we will support those plans that we have already agreed on".
  • The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) won for the first time a plurality in the September federal election. However, it was unable to find willing allies to form a governing coalition. Early opinion polling already indicates a strengthening in support for the FPÖ having been shut out of gov't.