Farid Hafez

Political Scientist, Assistant Teaching Professor of International Relations at William and Mary, Senior Fellow at Bridge Initiative/Georgetown University

After the far-right victory: what’s next for the Austrian government?

Elections in Austria are over. The Austrian far-right celebrated a historical victory by winning the most votes following a similar success in the European Parliamentary elections in July this year for the first time ever. But what came as a huge electoral success does not translate into power-sharing as it happened in 2017, when the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) became a coalition partner of the centre-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP). Read my latest op-ed on the upcoming negotiations for a new government: