Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the country's President Alexander Van der Bellen will discuss the date for the snap parliamentary elections later today, media reported on Sunday. The two officials are set to discuss in detail the formation of the caretaker government that will rule the country following the resignation of Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache.
The opposition Social Democratic Party of Austria, or SPOe, rejected the possibility of a grand coalition with Kurz's Austrian People's Party (OeVP), but it also acknowledged there has been no formal contact since the government crisis began.
On Saturday, Kurz announced that he will seek snap elections and asked Van der Bellen to hold them as soon as possible. The president agreed, stressing that Austria needs a trustworthy government and that the Strache scandal portrayed a "disturbing" moral picture.
