Austria’s president then asked Mr Stocker to try again with the SPÖ and NEOS. Haunted by the thought of seeing Mr Kickl in ...

Nehammer tried to form a coalition with the SPÖ and NEOS but failed and resigned. Unwillingness to adopt urgently needed economic reforms was the reason for the first failure to form a government.

The SPÖ and ÖVP had previously presented their future government team to the media, tapping ÖVP party leader Christian Stocker as the new federal chancellor. Head of the SPÖ Andreas Babler ...

SPÖ today is ideologically much more left-leaning, and it will have to swallow many compromises. However, sharing power again and blocking the far Right might seem important enough for the party ...

The conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the Social Democrats (SPÖ) have resumed talks on potentially forming a coalition as multiple attempts to form a government have failed since ...

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his government have lost a no-confidence vote following a corruption scandal prompted by a secretly-filmed video. Kurz’s former coalition partners from the ...

Cell phones and computers are to be infected with malware so that Austrian investigators can gain access. Only 2 members of ...

The SPÖ, which came third in the election, also confirmed the talks. An alliance between the ÖVP and SPÖ would have a majority of only one vote in the National Council (lower house of parliament).

The Social Democrats (SPÖ) said they’d declared the wrong candidate as the winner of a nail-biting party election over the weekend. Instead of Hans Peter Doskozil, the populist governor of the eastern ...

The FPÖ has been in government as a junior partner with the ÖVP in 1999 and 2017 and once with the SPÖ in 1983. It also has a long history of governing in coalitions in Austria’s nine federal ...

Mathematically, this is simply no longer possible: As the mayoral party in Lengenfeld in the district of Krems, the SPÖ currently holds nine seats. However, it is only running four candidates in ...

The shake-up in Austria’s SPÖ over its new leadership continues, with Innsbruck chief Helmut Buchacher announcing his resignation over a party take-over of what he deems to be far-left newcomers.