Explainer-What Next After Austrian Coalition Talks Led by Far Right Collapse?
VIENNA (Reuters) - Talks between Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) and the conservative People's Party (OVP) have collapsed, dashing the FPO's hopes of leading a government for the first time, at least for now.
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Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl's efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after his party won a national election.
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However, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen did not give the Freedom Party leader the mandate to form a coalition government until January, after attempts to form a coalition bloc without Kickl’s party failed. There has not been a far-right leading party in Austria’s government since World War II.
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Talks to form Austria's first coalition government led by the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) collapsed on Wednesday, days after the FPO's negotiations with the conservative People's Party (OVP) ground to a halt,
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The plan by the far-right Freedom Party to run Austria was halted by a disagreement over who would lead the all-important Interior Ministry.
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Negotiations to form a nationalist-conservative Austrian government collapsed due to differences over the distribution of political power in key ministries.
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