But cracks have appeared since last week, with radical FPOe leader Herbert Kickl insisting his party wants to hold both the interior and finance ministries -- demands the OeVP has rejected.

Coalition talks between the FPÖ and ÖVP, which received a mandate to attempt to form a government last month, have gound to a halt. The two parties' leaders are set to meet with President ...

Herbert Kickl, lead candidate of the far-right Austria Freedom Party, cheers at an FPÖ election rally ahead of Austrian parliamentary elections on September 27 in Vienna, Austria.

Austria goes to the polls this Sunday, with the populist, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPÖ) tipped to emerge as the winner, in what would mark another gain for the far right in Europe.. Unlike ...

Herbert Kickl, leader of Austrian Freedom Party (FPOE), gestures during the traditional FPOE May day event at the Urfahraner fair in Linz, Austria, Wednesday, May 01, 2024.

Leader of the Austrian People's Party (OeVP), Christian Stocker, makes a press statement after the end of the coalition negotiations between the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) and OeVP in Vienna ...

The far-right has won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since the Nazi era, as the pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam Freedom Party (FPÖ) beat the ruling centre-right People's Party ...

If the OeVP — who has been part of every government since 1987 — wins the most seats or performs almost as strongly as the FPOe, analysts see a possibility of a coalition with the far-right as ...

But past OeVP-FPOe governments have been short-lived. The last one, headed by charismatic then OeVP leader Sebastian Kurz collapsed in the wake of an FPOe corruption scandal in 2019 after just a ...

A far-right party founded by former Nazis won the most votes in Austria's election Sunday, in a result that could reshape Europe’s political landscape and help tilt the balance of power between ...

Austria goes to the polls this Sunday, with the populist, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPÖ) tipped to emerge as the winner, in what would mark another gain for the far right in Europe.. Unlike ...