Summary
Austria’s new government, a centrist coalition of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), and the liberal NEOS, was sworn in on Monday.
This move keeps the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), which won September’s election, out of power after it failed to secure coalition partners.
The new government, led by Chancellor Christian Stocker (ÖVP) and Vice Chancellor Andreas Babler (SPÖ), aims to tackle economic challenges and stricter migration policies.
Should clarify that what I meant with it making sense in the UK is that their election system results in that the party that get most seats usually get over 50%, which means that “winning” and winning often become the same thing. Except 2017, when the Tories only lacked 5 seats to have over 50%, and 2010, when the Tories and LibDem were in a rare coalition, so do you have to go all the way back to 1974 to find another election where the party that “won” did not get over 50% and 1923 to find an election where the party that “won” de facto lost. Hence, I do understand the use of that language there, as it usually is relevant who “won”.
2010 was also exceptional because this was the most seats that the Lib Dems had won in a long time (possibly ever?), which, at the time, people speculated could be the end to the UK’s defacto 2-party system (not counting the Scottish National Party (SNP)). Then the lib-dems squandered that good will and took 14 years to regain their footing. Fun fun fun.