Three major political parties in Austria announced on Thursday that they reached an agreement on the formation of a new government that excluded the end right, ending five months of the Roller-Coaster negotiations after the election last fall.
It was an incredible return for a diverse political coalition that had stumbled upon politics when she tried and failed to form a government earlier this year.
And it was a bitter failure for Freedom Party, which ended the first in last year’s elections on the power of an anti-cestable campaign against an immigrant, and briefly at the height of giving Austria to the first end right-wing office in the post-war era. No party approached the winning of a majority of votes or places in parliament.
Probable new chancellor, Christian Stocker, will instead come from a right -wing party that has led the nation for most of the last seven years: the People’s Party, which ended secondly in the September election, because the voters punished it for a series of corruption scandals that mostly happened years ago.
Mr Stocker should run the first three -page coalition in the Austrian government, along with the Austrian Social Democrats and Party of Centrist Neos.
“At a time of great challenge, Austria has always attracted its strength from the consensus of constructive forces,” Mr Stocker said at a news conference in Vienna on Thursday, where three parties presented a plan more than 200 pages for the management of land in the next four years. The coalition will announce further ministerial appointments on Friday.
The announcement freezes Party for freedomwho failed in his own attempt to form a government earlier this year.
The new government will start on thin ice. The Freedom Party has become increasingly popular than last fall, and is now supported by a third of the country.
Polls show that the Austrians are still frustrated because of the economy that has spent the last two years in recession and worried about immigration to the country, especially from predominantly Muslim countries. The Freedom Party also made a central question in its last campaign, promising wide deportations and a ban on political forms of Islam.
In the climate of these issues, the new government said they would tighten the attitude about migration, not allowing the asylum seeker to bring their families, banning the girls for girls.
“We are honest: this will be a difficult year, two difficult years,” said Beate Meinl-Reisinger, head of Neosa. “We are in a difficult economic situation; We are in a tight budget situation, “she said.
Freedom party, founded in the 1950s by former Nazi soldiers, and his leader, Herbert Kickl, offered to become the latest in the wave of hard right, antimigrant parties to take over or share power in Europe.
After the Freedom Party won the autumn elections, other parties refused to work with it. These parties were given the opportunity to form a government, but their efforts were knocked to politics issues, such as mixing the reduction of costs and tax increases to reduce the state’s budget deficit.
When the main coalition reached the downtime, the most conservative of the parties, the People’s Party entered into negotiations with the Freedom Party. They were ready to do Mr. Kick Chancellor.
But these negotiations were surprisingly interrupted by the question of which parties will be able to keep the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for migration and public security. Both sides insisted that they wanted it themselves.
This gave the main groups another opportunity.
Mr Stocker said three parties were able to pick up negotiations that interrupted in January, and all three leaders said they worked late at night so they could present a program, which has elements of each party platform. Although the budget repair was a major priority, the Social Democrats praised the freeze of rent for people who feel the effects of the recession. The Nono Party praised the plan for reducing bureaucracy and reducing certain labor costs.
There are many pressures on this coalition, including state debt and other differences between parties, said Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastic, a political science professor at the University of Vienna.
Still, he said, there is one major factor that holds the coalition together. “The negative incentives are very strong: others would almost certainly benefit from failure,” he said.
For years, the two main parties of the coalition have been the only main options in Austria – the power would be switched between them regularly. These old rivalries could make the coalition more fragile, wrote Peter Filzhiier, an Austrian political analyst, in exchanging E -Stable.
“As soon as the expectations, one of the coalition partners should become increasingly popular, the old rivalry between ÖVP -Ai SPö will appear again,” Mr. Filzhiier wrote, referring to the National Party and Social Democrats on his German acronyms.
One thing could do the coalition more stable, experts say: the smallest party, neos, cannot demolish the government by leaving it, because the two main parties have enough space in the Austrian parliament for the majority.
Mr Stocker, who is expected to lead the country starting Monday, took over his party’s leadership after former Chancellor Karl Nehammer resigned from the place in January when the main coalition of the coalition fell apart for the first time.
At the time, Mr Stocker was widespread for joining negotiations with a heavy right, especially since he warned the Austrians for months how dangerous the party was.
The NEOS party members will be expected to approve the agreement on a special vote on Sunday, Mrs. Meinl-Reisinger told reporters on Thursday. The government could then swore on Monday.
The main European political parties have fought in recent years to respond to erosion in support of the parties to establish and increase the new groups of heavy right -wing leaders who have used voters’ unrest for immigration, economic stagnation and cultural changes.
In Germany, a tiring-right alternative to Germany, or AFD, finished second in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, doubled her share of votes from 2021, but missing hopes for an even stronger display. But the next government is not expected to enter. All other German parties respect what is known as a national “firewall” against AFD, refusing to include it in the Government, as part of the decades of national efforts to avoid repeating the Nazi era.
JD Vance, an American vice -president, criticized Europeans this month in Munich about that practice, which he said was discouraging voters concerned about immigration, and invited them to involve the party in the Government. “No room for a firewall,” he said.
Austria has no such firewall. The Freedom Party has been involved several times as a younger partner in the coalition government, recently with the National Party. But he never held the chancellor.
