“We have now negotiated truthfully and for a very long time,” Nehammer mentioned in an announcement on X on Saturday. “No settlement is feasible with the SPÖ on key factors,” he added.
“The Folks’s Occasion stands by its guarantees: We won’t comply with measures which are hostile to advantages and enterprise, nor to new taxes,” Nehammer mentioned. “We’re due to this fact ending negotiations with the SPÖ,” he mentioned.
“I’ll stand down as chancellor and as chief of the Folks’s Occasion within the coming days and allow an orderly transition,” Nehammer mentioned.
The collapse of the talks, which formally began in November, will strengthen the hand of the anti-migrant, Russia-friendly Freedom Occasion (FPÖ), which surged to first place in September’s nationwide election however has been blocked from forming a authorities, with all different main events refusing to work with it.
On Friday, FPÖ Basic Secretary Michael Schnedlitz had referred to as on Nehammer to step down after the withdrawal of NEOS. “The FPÖ has been warning for months about this political monstrosity of the loser-traffic-light coalition based mostly on the German mannequin,” Schnedlitz mentioned.
Seb Starcevic contributed to this report.
