The Freedom Party, advocating an end to sanctions against Russia and calling for the 'remigration of uninvited foreigners', could soon lead Austria's government for the first time since World War II. After attempts to form a government without the party failed, President Alexander Van der Bellen tasked its leader, Herbert Kickl, with forming a coalition.
A party that advocates an end to economic sanctions against Russia and has called for the “remigration of uninvited foreigners” could soon give Austria its first government headed by the far right since World War II, with a leader who has a provocative style at its helm. Attempts to form a government without the far-right Freedom Party collapsed in recent days, more than three months after it won a parliamentary election.
A former speechwriter for the late former far-right leader Jörg Haider and a longtime campaign strategist who coined catchy and provocative anti-immigration slogans, Kickl was interior minister from 2017 to 2019 when the Freedom Party was a junior partner in a coalition government under conservative then-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. He became the Freedom Party leader in June 2021.
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