The Canadian populist Party for Freedom of Austria says she has ended her attempts to form a coalition government with the Conservative People's Party, ÖVP.
The announcement follows several weeks of heated negotiations and notes coalition negotiations for the second time, which fail after the election of September.
ÖVP first tried to create a tripartite coalition with the Social Democrats and Liberal Neosy, and then a two-party coalition with the Social Democrats-but both efforts collapsed.
With the Freedom Party (FPö), which cannot form a government, Austria is already in an unclear political situation.
The leader of the Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, called for quick new elections and blamed ÖVP for collapse, accusing the party of not wanting to compromise and play “strong games”.
“Although we made ÖVP discounts at many points, they were not ready to make decisive compromises. OVP was dealing with power games and posing – we, the Freedom Party, was engaged in security, prosperity and honesty.”
Earlier, Kckl told President Alexander van der Belen that he was refusing to form what would be Austria's first government in Austria, as FPö was founded by former Nazis in the 1950s.
The convenient for Russia and the Eurosceptic party made the history of the general election in September, when it first headed the urns by 28.8% of the vote, as a close defeat of Chancellor of Karl Nehammer, which received 26.3%.
However, in October, President Van der Beelon first gave the mandate to form a government. However, these negotiations collapsed in early January, which led Nehammer to resign and pave the way to the temporary Chancellor Alexander Shalenberg.
On January 6, Van der Belen gave the term of office to form a government after the efforts of other parties to set up a coalition without the freedom party failed.
Negotiations on the coalition in Austria usually remain secrets until a decision is made. But in recent days, both sides have issued statements about their requests, which suggested that the conversations were in difficulty.
The Freedom Party wanted both the powerful Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Interior, which was a major obstacle to ÖVP. For his part, ÖVP wanted confirmation of “the lack of Russian influence in Austria”, and Vienna remains a “reliable partner of the European Union”.
Kickl said on Wednesday that he was giving up his term of office, he wrote in a statement that “he has not taken this step without regret.”
He continued: “OVP insisted on clarifying the distribution of portfolios in early February. Although we made ÖVP discounts in many points in the next conversations, the negotiations were ultimately unsuccessful, very unfortunately.”
The Secretary -General of ÖVP, Alexander Preol, said the negotiations had failed because Kckl was on a “journey of power” and refused to compromise.
“Herbert Kicks himself hardly participated in government negotiations. After five weeks, Kickl was sitting at the negotiation table for a total of seven hours,” he said.
“He did not fulfill his mandate to form … a government of the centers. Instead, he insisted on all his demands, developing fantasies of total power, and ended the conversations.”
Political analyst Thomas Hofer told the BBC that there is no “basis of trust” between the two countries.
“Kickl tried to accept Trump's playboy for the” promised, respected “, but this is difficult in a coalition environment.
“In the end, ÖVP decided that the loss of the two major ministries with Chancellor Kickl, which could not be controlled and no confidence base was too risky,” he said.
ÖVP was the only party to negotiate with the freedom party.
President Alexander van der Belen said Austria now has four options after the collapse of coalition negotiations.
These were new elections, a minority government, a government of experts or other attempts to form a government from parliamentary parties, he said.
He said he would have talks with political parties in Austria in the next few days to see which option was realistic.
“Liberal democracy lives with compromises,” he said.