The political crisis of Austria deepens the far right in the formation of the government

The Popular Freedom Party in the right -wing Austria says it has ended its attempts to form an alliance government with the Conservative People’s Party, övp.

This announcement is followed by several weeks of hot negotiations, and it represents the second time that coalition talks have failed since the September elections.

Övp first tried to form an alliance of three parties with social Democrats and liberal New Niwa, then an alliance of two parties with socialist Democrats-but both of them collapsed.

With the Freedom Party (FPö) is unable to form a government, Austria is now in an unclear political situation.

The leader of the Freedom Party, Herbert Kiel, called for a quick new elections and blamed övp for collapse, accusing the party of not wanting to make concessions and play “power games”.

“Although we made concessions to övp in many points, they were not ready to make decisive concessions. Övp was interested in power and positions – we, the Freedom Party, interested in security, prosperity and honesty.”

Earlier, Rail told President Alexander van der Bellin that he was abandoning the mandate to form what could have been the first government in Austria -led the far -right since the founding of the FPö by the former Nazis in the fifties.

The Friendly Freedom Party of Russia and Eurosite achieved history in the general elections in September when opinion polls topped for the first time by 28.8 % of the vote, and defeated the tight counselor Karl Nehmemmar, who received 26.3 %.

Nevertheless, in October, President Van der Bellin first gave Nihammer to form a government. However, these negotiations collapsed in early January, which led to Nehammer and paved the way for the temporary consultant Alexander Challenberg.

On January 6, Van Der Bellen Kickl gave the authorization to form a government after the efforts of other parties to establish an alliance without the Freedom Party failed.

Coalition negotiations in Austria usually remain secret, until a decision is reached. But in recent days, both parties issued data about their demands, indicating that the talks were in trouble.

The Freedom Party wanted the strong Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Interior, which was a major obstacle to övp. For its part, övp wanted to confirm the “absence of the Russian influence in Austria”, and Vienna remained “a reliable partner of the European Union.”

Kickl said on Wednesday that he was abandoning the mandate, and writes in a statement that he “does not take this step without regret.”

He continued: “övp insisted on clarifying the allocation of the governor at the beginning of February. Although we made concessions to övp at many points in subsequent talks, the negotiations did not eventually succeed, so much to our regret.”

The Secretary -General of övp, Alexander Broll, said that the talks had failed because Kiel was on a “power trip” and refused to settle.

He said: “Herbert Kiel was barely involved in government negotiations. Within five weeks, Kiele sat on the negotiating table for seven hours.”

“He did not fulfill his mandate to form … the center -right government. Instead, he insisted on all his demands, the imaginations of the total power and ended the talks.”

Political analyst Thomas Hoover told the BBC that there was no “trust base” between the two parties.

“Kickl tried to build a Playbook book for Trump for” reserved promises “, but this is difficult in a coalition environment.

He said: “In the end, övp decided that the loss of the two main ministries with the unable to control Kickl’s adviser, and there was no highly fraught with confidence.”

Övp was the only party that was ready to negotiate with the Freedom Party.

President Alexander van der Beilin said that Austria now has four options after the coalition’s talks collapsed.

He said that these were new elections, a minority government, an expert government, or another attempt to form a government by parliamentary parties.

He said he would talk to the political parties in Austria during the next few days to find out the option that was realistic.

“The liberal democracy lives from a compromise,” he said.