The leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO), Herbert Kickl, holds a press conference on the coalition talks that are beginning after the FPO won a parliamentary election for the first time but fell short of a majority in Vienna, Austria, October 5, 2024. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner
VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, which won this week's parliamentary election, urged other parties on Saturday to accept that he should lead the next government and warned them against forming a "coalition of losers".
The eurosceptic, Russia-friendly Freedom Party (FPO) led by Herbert Kickl secured about 29% of the vote in last Sunday's election, a historic first for a party founded in the 1950s under a leader who had been an SS officer and Nazi lawmaker.
