Loser of Austrian election to try to form government after parties shun far right
by Deborah Cole in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#6RNB8)
People's party tasked with coalition talks with Social Democrats after winning Freedom party fails to find partner
Austria's president has tasked the incumbent chancellor with forming a new government, after the general election winner, the far-right Freedom party (FPO), failed to find a coalition partner to allow it to take power.
Alexander Van der Bellen, the 80-year-old head of state, told reporters he had asked Karl Nehammer, head of the centre-right People's party (OVP), to begin negotiations with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPO).
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