Austria is facing a unique situation: It could well be that after the National Council elections in autumn 2024, only two-party coalitions with the FPÖ will be possible. At the federal level, the ÖVP does not want to form a coalition with the radical “Kickl-FPÖ’ – but at the state level it has long been doing so.
But the right-wing party there is not moderate either. The ÖVP relies on a strange language regulation.