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| Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz seems to be re-emerging on top of the “Russiagate”-style scandal that brought down his coalition partner and resulted in the government collapse, projections of the Sunday vote count show. | Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz seems to be re-emerging on top of the “Russiagate”-style scandal that brought down his coalition partner and resulted in the government collapse, projections of the Sunday vote count show. |
| First projections based on a partial vote count show that Kurz’s party has won the snap election with a comfortable margin, with news agency APA suggesting that his People’s Party (OVP) would come first, with 37.1 percent, while Social Democrats would score 22.6 percent, the Freedom Party (FPO) would score 16.7 percent, the Greens 13 percent, and the liberal NEOS party 7.8 percent. | First projections based on a partial vote count show that Kurz’s party has won the snap election with a comfortable margin, with news agency APA suggesting that his People’s Party (OVP) would come first, with 37.1 percent, while Social Democrats would score 22.6 percent, the Freedom Party (FPO) would score 16.7 percent, the Greens 13 percent, and the liberal NEOS party 7.8 percent. |
| This would mean OVP re-emerges from the so-called “Ibizagate” affair even stronger than in the 2017 election, the Greens are set to return to the parliament in force – which they missed altogether last time around – with both the Social Democrats and the FPO losing ground. | This would mean OVP re-emerges from the so-called “Ibizagate” affair even stronger than in the 2017 election, the Greens are set to return to the parliament in force – which they missed altogether last time around – with both the Social Democrats and the FPO losing ground. |
| While the projected results are not unexpected, Kurz would still need to form a coalition and therein lies the intrigue. | While the projected results are not unexpected, Kurz would still need to form a coalition and therein lies the intrigue. |
| The main issue being closely followed by Western governments and media is whether Kurz will decide to restore the “anti-immigrant” right-wing coalition, or seek the support of the mainstream European left instead. | |
| The May scandal saw Kurz distance himself from his former coalition partner, FPO’s Heinz-Christian Strache, a victim of a 'honeytrap' featuring an actual femme fatale – a “Russian oligarch’s niece.” Though that turned out to be a sting operation with a paid actress, and Strache vigorously denied the corruption allegations leveled against him, the OVP-FPO coalition government was soon no more. Notably, the video, which had actually been filmed several years prior, emerged right before the European Parliament elections. | |
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