Just months before becoming chancellor of Austria on Monday, Christian Stocker was a party functionary with no ministerial ...

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s new government took office on Monday, with Christian Stocker taking over as chancellor at the head of ...

He took over the role of ÖVP's head from former chancellor Karl Nehammer, who resigned in January when initial negotiations between the three parties broke down. A former lawyer, Stocker has been ...

29. A first attempt collapsed in early January, prompting the resignation of then-Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who had said that his party wouldn’t work under Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl.

Negotiations had first collapsed in January, leading to the resignation of Chancellor Karl Nehammer from the conservative People’s Party and making way for interim Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg.

Mr. Stocker, who is expected to lead the country starting Monday, took over his party’s leadership after the former chancellor, Karl Nehammer, resigned from the post in January when the ...

New People's Party leader Christian Stocker is expected to become chancellor. Karl Nehammer says he will resign as Austrian leader after coalition talks to form a government excluding the ...

His successor, Karl Nehammer, threw in the towel in January after suffering massive losses in September elections and ceding first place to the far-right Freedom Party. Nehammer tried and failed ...