SPÖ leader Andreas Babler announced via X that he had informed Van der Bellen that he was both willing to support an expert government and ready for further negotiations. Similarly, Green leader Werner Kogler stated: The Federal President will take the next step "with customary foresight and prudence".

For Kogler, it does not matter whether there will be new elections, an expert government, or new talks between constructive forces. In any case, what is needed now is "responsibility, reason, the will to cooperate, and a portion of courage and confidence". In finding a solution, one must also "go beyond one's own shadow", said Kogler.

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The country needs stability, said Babler. The budgetary situation presents challenges for Austria. "The ability to act must therefore take precedence over stagnation, the national interest over party interest," emphasized the SPÖ leader: "Let's sit down together. Let's find solutions. So that we can move our country forward again." The SPÖ party leader should not be shaken, he will negotiate for the SPÖ and with him, they will go into new elections, said federal manager Klaus Seltenheim to ORF.

Kogler also emphasized that the Greens will contribute "with a willingness to compromise, openness, and the will to make Austria better." They will "do everything to ensure that a government without right-wing extremists comes into being and can work stably," said Kogler. He appealed to the ÖVP and SPÖ in front of journalists to come closer again, as even a possible expert government would need a majority of these two parties. Kogler would also support renewed trilateral negotiations with the NEOS - but "without these vanities and antics". "It's really about a viable cooperation and there are no big beauty prizes to be won here." The Greens themselves would also be ready to negotiate, said Kogler, but pointed to the rejecting attitude of the current coalition partner ÖVP. "We are certainly not the ones who run away."

NEOS leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger had already expressed willingness to cooperate on Tuesday and showed openness to renewed trilateral negotiations or a minority government. However, the NEOS leader restricted that the SPÖ must "move to the center" for this. Secretary General Douglas Hoyos emphasized in a statement on Wednesday that the NEOS had already repeatedly declared their willingness for new talks for a pro-European and reform-oriented government majority in recent days. There are several alternatives for this. The Pinks are open to constructive talks on all possibilities.

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