People’s Party Joins Opposition
From Times Wire Reports
The conservative junior partner in the coalition government, the Austrian People’s Party, decided to become an opposition party, a move that may lead to instability and elections next year. In a failed effort to prevent the far-right Freedom Party of Joerg Haider from entering the government in a coalition, the Social Democrats had urged the People’s Party to not join the opposition. Final results confirmed that the Freedom Party finished second.
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