Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg to serve as the country's interim leader
- Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country's interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party attempts to put together a new coalition government, the President's office said Wednesday.
- Schallenberg will take on the duties of outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who announced his resignation over the weekend after his efforts to put together a coalition without the Freedom Party collapsed.
- President Alexander Van der Bellen's office said in a statement that the head of state will formally task Schallenberg with continuing the management of the Chancellery and leading the interim government.
- Kickl received a mandate to try to form what would be the first national government led by the far right since World War II.
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