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| Austria’s chancellor chosen as predecessor quits after 2 months | |
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| Karl Nehammer, Austria’s minister of the interior, has been unanimously supported by the ruling conservative party to become the country’s next chancellor. | Karl Nehammer, Austria’s minister of the interior, has been unanimously supported by the ruling conservative party to become the country’s next chancellor. |
| The unanimous vote was confirmed to Austria’s public service broadcaster ORF by a top official in the People’s Party on Friday. Besides being Austria’s chancellor, Nehammer will also double as the chairman of the conservatives. | |
| It all comes after Alexander Schallenberg, who was sworn in as Austria's chancellor only seven weeks ago, stepped down on Thursday. Schallenberg resigned the chancellorship just hours after his predecessor in the country’s top office, Sebastian Kurz, announced the same day that he would be quitting all his political posts. | |
| The 49-year-old politician is Austria’s sixth chancellor in just five years, with the ruling People’s Party being beset by allegations of corruption, most prominently levelled at ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the party’s former coalition partners from the right-wing Freedom Party. | |
| Karl Nehammer is a veteran in Austria’s People’s Party and is known, among other things, for his tough stance on illegal immigration and the threat of Islamization. | |
| Nehammer’s predecessor in the country’s top office, Alexander Schallenberg, is going to become Austria’s foreign minister. |