Crucial Days for Blue-Black Coalition Negotiations

Today, Monday, and tomorrow, Tuesday, the coalition negotiations are to continue with further discussions in a smaller circle involving the party leaders Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) and Christian Stocker (ÖVP), both sides confirmed to APA. Key points are still open. In the coming days, it should become clear whether the coalition negotiations will continue or be broken off.

Major sticking points in coalition negotiations still unresolved

The mood between the coalition negotiators was not exactly good recently. Although the substantive subgroups are constantly meeting, the major sticking points have so far remained unresolved - from European and foreign policy issues to the bank levy demanded by the FPÖ. The coming days will therefore be crucial as to whether it will work out or be broken off. We are now in a phase where clarity must prevail, the ÖVP said. Statements from the SPÖ and NEOS, who said they were still willing to talk, irritated the ÖVP. If the blue-black negotiations were to be broken off, a new election would likely be the outcome.

Greens want coalition negotiations of the "constructive forces"

In the meantime, the Greens are hoping for a return to the negotiating table of the "constructive forces" apart from the FPÖ. They still want to prevent a government with FPÖ participation and are now launching a "participation action" for like-minded people. Using an email template on the Greens' homepage, they want to appeal "to the conscience" of ÖVP mayors and district representatives to actively oppose a coalition with the FPÖ within the ÖVP, the Greens envisage. "Anyone who has a Christian social conscience and wants to be a pro-European party does not govern with right-wing extremists," said Green Party leader Werner Kogler in a statement.

(APA/red)

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