Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, who’s overseeing coalition talks after the nation’s September common election, will bear a routine operation within the subsequent few days, his workplace stated on Saturday.
The 80-year-old, who has been Austrian president since 2017, “has been fighting disc issues because the starting of the 12 months” and “will due to this fact bear a routine operation on his intervertebral discs,” his workplace stated on social media platform X.
His workplace added that Chancellor Karl Nehammer will signify Van der Bellen throughout his remedy and subsequent restoration.
Final week, Van der Bellen tasked Nehammer, additionally chief of the Folks’s Get together, with forming a coalition authorities regardless of the Freedom Get together’s victory in September’s parliamentary election. The Freedom Get together has not been capable of finding coalition companions to control.
