 The President of Austria accordingly asked ÖVP leader Sebastian Kurz to commence coalition talks to form a new government.The Social Democratic Party ("Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs", or SPÖ) is a social democratic/centre-left political party that was founded in 1888 as the Social Democratic Worker's Party ("Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei", or SDAP), when Victor Adler managed to unite the various opposing factions.The party was reconstituted as the Socialist Party of Austria in 1945 (renamed to the Social Democratic Party of Austria in 1991) after being outlawed in 1934.