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Sebastian Kurz triggers Austrian election after far-right scandal
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia May 18, 2019 04:11pm |
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| Author | Matthew Karnitsching |
| News Date | Saturday, May 18, 2019 07:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz triggered a general election on Saturday after the release of a video that showed his far-right coalition partner seeking to trade public contracts for campaign donations.
"Enough is enough," Kurz said in a brief statement, in which he described the many challenges he faced in recent months in dealing with the far-right Freedom Party, which despite its alignment with the chancellor's center-right People's Party on policy issues remained a lightning rod for controversy.
Kurz said that given his ideological differences with Austria's other parties and the Freedom Party's crisis, he had asked the country's president, Alexander Van der Bellen to call a new election, which is expected to be held in the fall. |
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