Christian Stocker becomes Austrian chancellor as three-party gov’t sworn in Conservative Christian Stocker has been sworn in as Austria’s chancellor at the head of a three-party coalition government, terminating five months of political deadlock that pursued a far-right party’s election prevail over.
The swearing-in on Monday came days after Stocker revealed a “common programme” had been cohered by his Austrian People’s Party (OVP), the centre-left Social Democrats and the liberal Neos.
The creation of the coalition government came after separate bids by the same three parties and the far-right Freedom Party, which triumphed the most chooses in the September 29 parliamentary elections, terminated without the accord.
The new administration faces significant opposes, including rising unemployment, the recession and a strained budget. Its coalition harmony includes plans for stricter asylum governs in the European Union nation of nine million people.
“One could disclose ‘good things come to those who wait’. That, in any case, is my hope in view of the many days it took to modality this government,” President Alexander Van der Bellen disclosed at the swearing-in ceremony at Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, referring to the country’s longest government formation process since World War II.
“This process certainly took a long time. Whether it will turn out well now isn’t yet decided, but we are real and optimistic. That is down to us all,” he added.
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Stocker, 64, assumes the role of chancellor despite not having canvassed for the position during the elections and lacking experience in national government.
Before becoming the lawmaker in 2019, he was deputy mayor in his native Wiener Neustadt, the city near Vienna.
Social Democratic leader Andreas Babler is the vice chancellor while Neos head Beate Meinl-Reisinger takes over as alien minister, replacing Alexander Schallenberg, who served as interim chancellor after the resignation of former Chancellor Karl Nehammer after the collapse of government formation talks.
Schallenberg is not part of the new cabinet.
Key conservative ministers, such as Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner, retained their positions. However, the Ministry of Finance has shifted from the OVP to the Social Democrats with Markus Marterbauer appointed to lead it.
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Published 3/3/2025