Austria’s two main centrist parties are hurriedly advancing towards a coalition agreement, sidelining the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after it failed to form a government, party officials revealed on Thursday. Should the conservative People’s Party (OVP) and Social Democrats (SPO) successfully strike a deal, this would be the third try with some backing from smaller centrist parties, following unsuccessful attempts led first by the OVP in January, and then by the eurosceptic FPO last week.
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