Hungarian far-right leader Herbert Kickl claimed on Wednesday that his discussions with a liberal party about forming a coalition government have failed.
After unsuccessful attempts to form a governing coalition with his Freedom Party, Austria’s leader on January 6 gave Kickl the authority to form a new government.
However, his discussions with the traditional Austrian People’s Party, which have been on the rise, have gotten more contentious in recent days, with frequent discussions of plan disagreements and a disagreement over who would receive which ministries.
Kickl made the announcement on Wednesday that he would no longer be able to form what would have been the primary far-right-led national authorities since World War II, President Alexander Van de Bellen.
Kickl’s anti-immigration and rightist party, which opposes sanctions against Russia, won Austria’s legislative election in September. It took 28.8 per share of the ballot and beat next president Karl Nehammer’s Women’s Party into second place.
After Nehammer’s group claimed it doesn’t join the Freedom Party under Kickl and people refused to work with the Freedom Party at all, President Alexander Van de Bellen gave him the first opportunity to form a new government in October.
In the first few days of the new time, those discussions broke down, and Nehammer resigned, leaving Alexander Schallenberg as time governor.
