Austria: President Presses for Progress in Coalition Negotiations

People ♦ Published: December 2, 2013; 10:04 ♦ (Vindobona)

It has been two months after since the coalition negotiations started after the elections for the National Assembley. However, there has been not visible progress.

Austria: President Presses for Progress in Coalition Negotiations / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Two months after the elections for the National Assembly progress on coalition negotiations is continuing to be slow. President Heinz Fischer now presses the parties to form a new government soon and demands the announcement of a new coalition before Christmas. Reinhold Lopatka, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, however, calls for “quality rather than speed”.