Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Monday that his conservative Austrian People's Party would remain in the current government coalition with its Green party junior partner even though his environment minister voted in a European Union vote in favor of the so-called Nature Restoration plan that Nehammer has opposed.
The vote by environment minister Leonore Gewessler of the Green party earlier on Monday came after months of domestic political debate and infuriated the senior partner in the coalition government — Nehammer’s conservative Austrian People’s Party — ahead of a national election set for Sept. 29.
