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AUSTRIA: Moderate Party Leaders Meet w/Pres After Gov't Talks Collapse

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Leaders of the four main moderate parties in the National Council have been meeting with, or are scheduled to meet, President Alexander van der Bellen today. This follows the collapse of coalition talks between the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the centre-right Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) on 12 Feb. Van der Bellen has already met with the leaders of the environmentalist Greens, liberal NEOS, and the ÖVP. Andreas Babler, leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPÖ) is currently speaking to the press ahead of his meeting with the president. 

  • Van der Bellen, an independent who formerly led the Greens, has said he is taking the meetings to determine what options for gov't might be successful. The four apparent options are: - re-starting talks between the ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS that previously broke down late in 2024, forming a minority gov't propped up in a confidence and supply agreement, imposing a technocratic gov't of experts, or calling snap federal elections.
  • On the prospect of snap elections, as AP reports "due to legal requirements and deadlines, that is unlikely to happen before June."
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Leaders of the four main moderate parties in the National Council have been meeting with, or are scheduled to meet, President Alexander van der Bellen today. This follows the collapse of coalition talks between the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the centre-right Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) on 12 Feb. Van der Bellen has already met with the leaders of the environmentalist Greens, liberal NEOS, and the ÖVP. Andreas Babler, leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPÖ) is currently speaking to the press ahead of his meeting with the president. 

  • Van der Bellen, an independent who formerly led the Greens, has said he is taking the meetings to determine what options for gov't might be successful. The four apparent options are: - re-starting talks between the ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS that previously broke down late in 2024, forming a minority gov't propped up in a confidence and supply agreement, imposing a technocratic gov't of experts, or calling snap federal elections.
  • On the prospect of snap elections, as AP reports "due to legal requirements and deadlines, that is unlikely to happen before June."