The announcement was a victory for mainstream political parties, after earlier talks involving the hard-right Freedom Party broke down.

Three Austrian mainstream parties said they had come to an agreement, elbowing aside the far-right group that had won the country’s election.

The Freedom Party has sought to join the rising tide of hard-right movements across Europe by tapping into voter anger over immigration, inflation and the European Union’s influence.

Austrian parties that plan to form a coalition government excluding the far right announced their future ministers on Friday, among them the first left-wing finance minister in 25 years, before a key vote to seal the deal on Sunday.

Three mainstream parties reached a deal on Thursday to form a new centrist Austrian government, two weeks after a far-right party that won an election in September failed to put together an administration.