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Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Leader, Is Ousted in No-Confidence Vote
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia May 27, 2019 10:56am |
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| Author | Melissa Eddy |
| News Date | Monday, May 27, 2019 02:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BERLIN — Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of Austria and his caretaker government were ousted from power on Monday with a no-confidence vote in Parliament as the ramifications of a secretly filmed video plunged the once-stable central European country further into political chaos.
Mr. Kurz, 32, became the first Austrian leader in more than seven decades to be removed from power by his fellow lawmakers. The action came despite a gain of eight percentage points of popular support for Mr. Kurz’s conservative People’s Party in the European Parliament elections.
It has been a turbulent week for Austrian politics. Mr. Kurz’s coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party collapsed after the party’s leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, resigned as vice chancellor when a video emerged that showed him promising government contracts to a woman claiming to be a wealthy Russian in exchange for financial support. |
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