Last hurdle cleared
Just one more hurdle, then the treat is fixed
The NEOS voted in favor of the three-party coalition with more than 94 percent on Sunday. However, the negotiations with the ÖVP and SPÖ are not over yet, but will take five years, said party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger.
She wiped away tears of joy as she celebrated the result with the NEOS leadership. 94.13 percent of the 1,700 members voted in favor of the coalition with the ÖVP and SPÖ and thus also approved the new government program.
Politics must think beyond narrow allotment gardens, national borders and the next election day, said Meinl-Reisinger, who has been nominated as Foreign Minister. In January, there were good reasons to move on from the tripartite negotiations. In the second round, however, many things were different. The NEOS had introduced many important points and could be proud of the result.
Meinl-Reisinger therefore wants to enter this government "with confidence and unshakeable optimism". It is clear that the negotiations with the ÖVP and SPÖ are not yet over; they will begin on Monday and last for five years.
Skeptics were silenced
The party leader in particular was the driving force behind the NEOS being available to form a three-party coalition at the second attempt.
Some top pink party officials would have preferred an issue partnership in parliament with the ÖVP and SPÖ instead. They feared that the NEOS would betray their values in a three-party coalition. Meinl-Reisinger is said to have eloquently silenced all opponents in internal party meetings.
Wiederkehr: "We will deliver"
Vienna's Deputy Mayor Christoph Wiederkehr, who is now to become Education Minister, had also appealed for the party to deliver. Governing is not a sprint, but a marathon. There must be no more stagnation in schools, and in the current geopolitical situation, a government capable of action and a united Europe are needed.
LIF founder Heide Schmidt and Hans Peter Haselsteiner had also campaigned for a Yes vote. The skeptics hardly dared to take to the open stage. Viennese party member Stephan Mittelbach, for example, saw "no work program, this is a hope paper". The founding fathers would not agree to this, and he denied the ÖVP and SPÖ the will and ability to make savings.
Swearing-in ceremony on Monday
In order to guarantee the success of the vote, MPs and senior state officials were obliged to call through the members to convince them of the coalition program. Meinl-Reisinger even demanded written documentation of every telephone call made. In this way, no one could escape responsibility.
The ÖVP and SPÖ executive committees had already approved the government program and the list of ministers on Friday. Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen will announce the new government on Monday at 11 a.m., the declaration in the National Council can then follow on Friday.
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