Austria's president tasks centre-right with forming government after far-right Freedom Party's election win. The party, which won 29% of the vote, has refused to govern without them. President Alexander Van der Bellen has tasked Chancellor Karl Nehammer, leader of the conservative People's Party (OVP), with holding coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPO).

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