Austria’s new government keeps function after five-month wait for new administration

Vienna – Austria new government He took over the office on Monday, with a Christian table, which took over the Chancellor at the forefront of a previously undisclosed three-sided coalition after the five-month wait for the new administration.

The new government will need to deal with increasing unemployment, recession and crankshadows. His coalition agreement was reached on Thursday after the longest negotiations in the post-World War of Austria, predicts strict new rules for asylum in the country of European Union in the amount of 9 million people.

This is the first three-party government in the country, gathered by the Conservative Austrian National Party, in central Social Democrats and Liberal Neos. The Federation in the Political Center was gathered only in the second attempt, after the end right party freedom appeared as the strongest political force in Parliamentary elections 29. September.

First Trying crashed in early Januarystimulus Resignation of the then chancellor Karl NehammerWho said his party would not work under the leaders of Freedom for fun Herbert Kickl.

Stocker took over from Nehammer as the leader of the National Party and entered the negotiations with kicklov to a possible coalition, but They collapsed 12. February, in the middle of the mutual showing of the finger.

Three parties in the center then renewed their effort to find the common ground, headed from the possibility of an early election. On Sunday, the Coalition Agreement received strong support from Neos members, which enters the Federal Government for the first time – the final step before the government could take the function.

“It could be said” good things waiting “- whether in any case, in any case, in any case in terms of many days needed to form this government,” said President Aleksandar Van Der Bellhen.

“This procedure surely took a long time; whether well, it was still not decided, but we are positive and optimistic,” he added. “That’s all the way.”

Stocker, 64, becomes a chancellor even though he did not run for the job when the Austrians voted in September and did not serve in the National Government before this. The Social Democratic Leader Andreas Babler became a new Vice Chancellor.

The Neos Beate Meinl-Reisinger leader took over the Foreign Minister from Alexander Schallenbergwho served as a temporary chancellor in the past two months after Nehammen’s resignation. Schallenberg is not in the new cabinet.

Some conservative ministers from the Old Government retained their jobs, especially the Minister of the Interior Gerhard Carner and the Minister of Defense Klaudia Tanner. But the important Ministry of Finance has passed from the National Party of Social Democrats, with Marcus Marterbauer taking a job.

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Moulson reported from Berlin.