At a convention on Saturday, Austria’s Social Democrats (SPÖ) declared that Hans Peter Doskozil, governor of the eastern Burgenland province, was the new leader of the center-left party.

Nehammer tried to form a coalition with the SPÖ and NEOS but failed and resigned. Unwillingness to adopt urgently needed economic reforms was the reason for the first failure to form a government.

The SPÖ and ÖVP had previously presented their future government team to the media, tapping ÖVP party leader Christian ...

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 ...

SPÖ today is ideologically much more left-leaning, and it will have to swallow many compromises. However, sharing power again and blocking the far Right might seem important enough for the party ...

The Social Democrats (SPÖ) said they’d declared the wrong candidate as the winner of a nail-biting party election over the weekend. Instead of Hans Peter Doskozil, the populist governor of the eastern ...

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his government have lost a no-confidence vote following a corruption scandal prompted by a secretly-filmed video. Kurz’s former coalition partners from the ...

The SPÖ, which came third in the election, also confirmed the talks. An alliance between the ÖVP and SPÖ would have a majority of only one vote in the National Council (lower house of parliament).

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 ...

The shake-up in Austria’s SPÖ over its new leadership continues, with Innsbruck chief Helmut Buchacher announcing his resignation over a party take-over of what he deems to be far-left newcomers.

On Monday, Austria’s opposition Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) announced it was reversing the result of a highly contentious leadership contest, pronounced on Saturday, because of a spreadsheet ...

Social Affairs Councillor Doris Kampus announced in the summer that she would be leaving the provincial government after the provincial elections and concentrating fully on her role as SPÖ Graz ...