More than four months after the election, an agreement in the coalition negotiations between FPÖ and ÖVP is still not in sight. The formation of the government is thus likely to be the longest in the history of the Second Republic.
129 Days Since NR Election: Government Formation Reaches Record Length on Wednesday
4-02-2025, 07:19
On Wednesday, February 5, the formation of the government reaches a record length. It will then be 129 days since the National Council election - only after the 1962 election did it take just as long to swear in a government.
The length is due to the failure of the negotiations for a black-red-pink triple coalition. 96 days after the election, on January 3, the NEOS withdrew from the negotiations, the next day former ÖVP leader and Chancellor Karl Nehammer also broke off the negotiations between ÖVP and SPÖ. Since January 10, and thus for almost a month, the election winner FPÖ and the ÖVP have officially been trying together - if successful, it would be the first blue-black coalition. However, there are also points of friction here. Whether an agreement can be reached remains open.
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Government formations after 1962 and 1999 elections in second and third place
Even after the election of November 18, 1962, the negotiations between ÖVP and SPÖ dragged on for months before the two parties finally reluctantly agreed - one last time before the phase of single-party governments - on a new edition of the Grand Coalition. The government under Chancellor Alfons Gorbach (ÖVP) was appointed by President Adolf Schärf on March 27, 1963, 129 days after the election.
In third place of the longest government formations is that of the first black-blue coalition. 25 years ago, it took a total of 124 days for it to take office. The complicated initial situation after the election on October 3, 1999 had quite a few parallels to the current situation: The SPÖ, which had the most votes, ruled out a coalition with the FPÖ, which had landed in second place for the first time, the third-ranked ÖVP wanted to go into opposition. Weeks-long coalition negotiations between SPÖ and ÖVP failed, then things moved quickly. Just two weeks later, on February 4, the - already pre-built - first black-blue coalition under ÖVP leader Wolfgang Schüssel was sworn in.
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