SPO and OVP Decide to Discuss New Government Formation

On Monday, two biggest parties of Austria gave their consent over discussion about development of a new government.

It is, reportedly, following fall of the pro-Europe coalition partners the previous month. Ever since the World War II, they plunged to the worst election results.

It has been found that the Social Democrats (SPO) of Chancellor Werner Faymann and the conservative People's Party (OVP) allies have been in power since 2006. They still are the biggest parliamentary parties before the Freedom Party (FPO), which is euroskeptic and anti-immigrant.

According to Faymann, on Tuesday, the two major parties would be starting with preliminary talks.

Discontentment was shown in the election by Austrian voters. It was clear with over 20% of the parliament seats being awarded by them to the FPO.

A survey was conducted, which showed that almost 75% of voters in Austria were seeking the parties to involve a third associate in a novel coalition. The voters seemed tired of backbiting as well as policy paralysis. The same had stained the sociable SPO-OVP coalition.

The survey further revealed that the almost only 11% of voters were in favour of SPO-OVP coalition's repetition. These voters showed different levels of support for expected three-party alliances, the report said.


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