The timetable for the next few days was set at a presidium and board meeting in Dornbirn. After exploratory one-on-one discussions with the heads of the other state parliament parties on Tuesday, Wallner will primarily decide with whom coalition negotiations will begin. These should start next week.
Wallner explained this to the APA on the sidelines of the meetings. The state governor wants to make the decision on Wednesday as to who will be invited to “in-depth discussions” on Thursday and Friday and then probably to government negotiations. While he will hold the exploratory talks with Christof Bitschi (FPÖ), Daniel Zadra (Greens), Claudia Gamon (NEOS) and Mario Leiter (SPÖ) in private on Tuesday, a negotiating team is available for the continuing discussions. In addition to Wallner state governor Barbara Schöbi-Fink, club chairman Roland Breakfast and state manager Dietmar Wetz, the ÖVP’s interests are represented.
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According to Wallner, he has not yet decided whether he wants to continue governing with the FPÖ or with the Greens, with whom there has been an agreement since 2014. Based on the state governor’s statements on election Sunday, everything points to the Freedom Party’s participation in government.
Committee meetings at the FPÖ and the Greens
The two potential government partners FPÖ and the Greens also held committee meetings in Bregenz on Monday evening, but declined to comment. The FPÖ wanted to wait until the conversation with Wallner on Tuesday before deciding how to proceed. In particular, it is about considering the strategy for negotiations with the ÖVP – specifically whether to have three state councilors or to do without one and instead rely on the post of state governor in the person of Christof Bitschi. It is also important to set up a team for the talks, as the ÖVP has already done.
The Greens, for their part – like the ÖVP and FPÖ – carried out an election analysis. Party leader Daniel Zadra had already said on election Sunday: “The ball is in Wallner’s court.”
