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Austrian chancellor to resign after coalition talks collapse

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer speaks during a news conference after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, April 11, 2022 [Maxim Shemetov/Reuters]

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he will resign after talks between the country’s biggest centrist parties on forming a government without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) collapsed.

Nehammer’s announcement on Saturday prompted Austria’s ruling conservative People’s Party (OVP) to hold a crisis meeting on Sunday to pick a successor.

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