Christian Stocker becomes an Austrian chancellor as a three -page government in | News about politics
The Party of Extreme Right Freedom has won the majority of votes at the election in September, but the new ruling coalition holds it in opposition.
The conservative Christian warehousekeeper swore as an Austrian chancellor at the head of a three -sided coalition government, ending five months of political downtime that followed the end right -wing party Election victory.
Oath on Monday arrived for days after Stocker said The “joint program” agreed to his Austrian National Party (OVP), the Social Democrats of the left in the center and the liberal neo.
The creation of the coalition government followed after the separate bids of the same three parties and the parties of the far right, which won the most votes in the 29 September parliamentary elections, ended without an agreement.
The new administration faces significant challenges, including growing unemployment, a recession and a tense budget. His coalition agreement includes plans for stricter asylum rules in the European Union of nine million people.
“It could be said” good things come to those who wait. “This is, in any case, my hope, given the more days that had to form this government,” said President Alexander Van der Bellen at the oath ceremony at the Vienna Palace in Hofburg, referring to the longest process of government formation in the country since World War II.
“This procedure must have lasted a long time. Will it turn out well now, but we are positive and optimistic. That’s all of us,” he added.
Stocker, 64, takes on the role of chancellor, although he did not advocate that place during the election and lacked experiences in the National Government.
Before he became an MP in 2019, he was Deputy Mayor in his native Wiener Neustadt, a city near Vienna.
Social-Democratic leader Andreas Babler Vicekancelar, while the Neo head was beaten by Meinl-Reisinger as Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing Alexander Schallenberg, who, after collapse after the collapse in the temporary chancellor, was former Chancellor Kancer Karl Nehammer.
Schallenberg is not part of the new cabinet.
Key Conservative Ministers, such as Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and Defense Minister Claudia Tanner, retained their positions. However, the Ministry of Finance passed from OV on Social Democrats with Markus Marterbauer appointed him.
