Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will temporarily lead the government from January 10.
This was reported by the APA agency.
On Friday, January 10, President Alexander Van der Bellen will instruct him to "continue to manage the Federal Chancellery and chair the interim federal government," the Austrian presidentʼs office said.
This is Schallenbergʼs second term as head of government, who also remains foreign minister. He served as acting chancellor for two months in 2021 after Sebastian Kurz resigned, before Karl Niehammer took over as head of the Peopleʼs Party and chancellor.
- In October 2024, Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen tasked Chancellor Karl Niehammer, leader of the Austrian Peopleʼs Party, with forming a government, despite the victory of the far-right.
- However, negotiations on a coalition government in Austria collapsed when one of the three centrist parties withdrew from the talks, undermining the alliance that had been formed without the winner of the parliamentary elections, the pro-Russian far-right Freedom Party of Austria. After this, Niehammer decided to resign.
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