VIENNA (Reuters) – Talks between Austria's two largest centrist parties on forming a coalition government without the far-right Freedom Party have collapsed, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Saturday, a day after the liberal Neuss party withdrew from the negotiations.
“I will step down from my position as chancellor and leader of the (conservative) People’s Party in the coming days and will be able to achieve an orderly transition,” Nehammer said in a video statement on Channel X, after coalition talks with the Social Democrats.
