Austria's Social Democrats announced Andreas Babler as their new leader — two days after congratulating another candidate for winning an internal poll.

Fearing that heading to a new election would only strengthen the FPÖ, Stocker decided to turn again to the Social Democrats and later added the NEOS in a new attempt to form a center-left government.

The SPOe's worst result ever was 39.15 percent in 1996. Sunday's election saw voters pick their city council and the mayors of the city's 23 districts. jza/jj.

If no last-minute obstacle arises, Austria will next week have a three-party governing coalition for the first time in 78 ...

The conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the Social Democrats (SPÖ) have resumed talks on potentially forming a coalition as multiple attempts to form a government have failed since ...

In Austria, the elections really are rigged — by incompetence. The Social Democrats (SPÖ) said they’d declared the wrong candidate as the winner of a nail-biting party election over the weekend.

For the major opposition parties, the government is already finished long before the election date in the fall. The SPÖ and FPÖ see the National Council program for this week, which does not ...

Mathematically, this is simply no longer possible: As the mayoral party in Lengenfeld in the district of Krems, the SPÖ currently holds nine seats. However, it is only running four candidates in ...

Centre-left SPOe retains Vienna, but far right triples vote FPOe came second with some 20 percent 28 aprile 2025, 09:11 ...