BREAKING: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is calling for a new election after his vice chancellor resigned due to scandal.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for an early election after the resignation of his vice chancellor spelled an end to his governing coalition.
He also said a possible coalition with the Social Democrats would not permit the Austrian government to carry out its policies of limiting debt and taxes.German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken out against “right-wing populism” following a scandal involving Austria’s vice chancellor apparently offering government contracts to an allegedly wealthy Russian woman.
Austrian vice chancellor Heinz-Chritian Strache resigned Saturday after two German publications published video of him apparently promising a Russian investor government contracts in return for her purchasing a newspaper and supporting his anti-immigrant Freedom Party.Austria is waiting for a statement from Chancellor Sebastian Kurz about the future of the country’s government after his vice chancellor and coalition partner Heinz-Christian Strache resigned in a covert video scandal.
Strache said Saturday in a statement before assembled journalists that he was illegally set up in a “political assassination,” but added his behavior in the video was “stupid and a mistake.”
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