VIENNA — Austrian Individuals’s Occasion on Sunday nominated its Common Secretary Christian Stocker as interim chief after the anticipated resignation of Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Austrian information company APA reported.
Nehammer introduced Saturday he would resign within the subsequent few days after coalition talks with the Social Democrats collapsed.
Stocker, a lawyer and member of the Austrian Parliament, has served as basic secretary of the Individuals’s Occasion since 2022. He’s seen as an skilled and calm disaster communicator who has ceaselessly appeared in Austrian media to defend controversial selections.
Protected by particular police forces, Nehammer walked throughout the sq. from the Chancellery towards the president’s workplace in Vienna.
“What’s necessary for me is that the way in which of stability and the middle could be continued,” he mentioned.
The 52-year-old Nehammer grew to become chancellor and conservative celebration chief in 2021, after his predecessor Sebastian Kurz was compelled to face down following allegations of corruption.
In April 2022, Nehammer grew to become the primary European chief to go to Moscow and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the reason that invasion of Ukraine in February that 12 months. Earlier than going to Moscow, he additionally met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen will make a public assertion to announce the subsequent steps as soon as the assembly with Nehammer is over.
