From the NR Election to the Unsuccessful Coalition Negotiations: The Big Review
29.9. National Council election: The FPÖ becomes the strongest party in parliament for the first time. They achieve 28.8 percent of the votes (57 mandates), the ÖVP 26.3 (51), the SPÖ 21.1 (41), the NEOS 9.1 (18) and the Greens 8.2 percent (16). Only FPÖ-ÖVP, FPÖ-SPÖ and - with a very narrow majority - ÖVP-SPÖ are possible as two-party coalitions.
1.10. ÖVP leader and Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer advocates that FPÖ chairman Herbert Kickl be commissioned by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen to conduct exploratory talks.
2.10. The turquoise-green government offers the Federal President their resignation, he entrusts them with the continuation of business. Only the State Secretary for Art and Culture, Andrea Mayer (Greens), resigns at her own request.
4.10. Van der Bellen begins the first round of talks with the five parliamentary parties. Kickl is the first to be received in the Presidential Chancellery. There he informs the Federal President of his willingness to govern, as he reports at a press conference the following day.
8.10. Nehammer and SPÖ leader Andreas Babler meet for a first "atmospheric exchange".
9.10. Van der Bellen does not initially give a government formation mandate after the first round of talks and asks the leaders of the parties with the most votes, FPÖ, ÖVP and SPÖ, to "clarify what cooperation would be conceivable" in order to solve the "stalemate". FPÖ leader Kickl announces that he wants to coordinate the talks.
15.10. Kickl and Nehammer meet for a discussion. Nehammer insists that he excludes a coalition with the FPÖ under Kickl.
18.10. Kickl and Babler meet for a discussion. The SPÖ leader also once again rules out any cooperation with the FPÖ.
21.10. Second round of talks at the Federal President's office: Van der Bellen receives Kickl, Nehammer, and Babler in succession.
22.10. Van der Bellen gives Nehammer the task of forming the government and asks him to immediately start negotiations with the SPÖ and clarify whether a third partner is needed. Nehammer accepts the task.
24.10. Constituent meeting of the National Council with the election of Walter Rosenkranz (FPÖ) as President of the National Council.
25.10. Start of exploratory talks between ÖVP and SPÖ
12.11. After the fourth round of exploratory talks, ÖVP and SPÖ invite the NEOS to join as a third partner at the discussion table.
13.11. Tripartite explorations begin.
18.11. Nehammer, Babler, and Meinl-Reisinger announce the start of official coalition negotiations.
21.11. The coalition negotiations in seven main clusters and 33 subgroups start.
26.11. The salary conclusion for public servants causes the first dispute between ÖVP, SPÖ, and NEOS. The pink negotiators demand a clarifying conversation, which takes place the following day.
2.12. The tense budget situation is straining the coalition climate. The SPÖ threatens to pause the coalition talks if there is no "cash check".
13.12. The subgroups complete their work.
16.12. The EU Commission presents the four possible consolidation paths: Within four or seven years, Austria must save between 18 and 24 billion euros.
20.12. After rumors of a possible burst of the coalition negotiations in the three-party format, an agreement is reached in nine-hour negotiations on a minimal compromise on the consolidation path: The budget rehabilitation should be planned for seven years.
3.1. NEOS leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger announces her party's withdrawal from the coalition negotiations. She misses the willingness for fundamental reforms on the part of ÖVP and SPÖ. ÖVP and SPÖ still want to continue negotiations.
4.1. Nehammer breaks off the talks with the SPÖ and announces his resignation as Chancellor and ÖVP leader.
(APA/Red)
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