Current politics

Three party leaders who are condemned to govern

Karl Nehammer, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Andreas Babler: a trio looking for common ground.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Reuters, Reinhard Holl, Mario Urbantschitsch)

Karl Nehammer, Andreas Babler and Beate Meinl-Reisinger are separated by a lot in terms of content and personality. One thing unites them: Only a joint government can save their chief posts. 

And then the holidays became the fall vacations. The difference: the public holidays came by themselves, the fall vacations have to be taken, with the exception of schoolchildren. Karl Nehammer, Andreas Babler and Beate Meinl-Reisinger, two of whom have schoolchildren, have just experienced this subtle difference. Government negotiations at the highest level were suspended between the national holiday and All Saints' Day.