Austria's Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner addresses a news conference in Vienna, Austria, April 26, 2016. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - Austria's acting Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner did not rule out a snap parliamentary election after Werner Faymann quit as head of the government, but said on Tuesday he expected to reach agreement in coalition talks with the Social Democrats.
Faymann resigned as chancellor on Monday, bowing to a revolt inside his Social Democratic Party after it suffered a humiliating defeat to the far right in a first-round vote for the largely ceremonial post of president in April.
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