Politics of Austria

Herbert Kickl, leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), described the historic victory in Sunday’s elections as the beginning of a new era.

Kickl’s party secured 29.2% of the vote and 58 seats in parliament, although this does not grant them a majority (Austria’s parliament has 183 seats).

Nehammer knows the OVP very well, since he was the general secretary of the party, and he is also a favorite among his party colleagues.
The fact that the coalition partner the Greens and the governors of the provinces from the ranks of the people accepted the appointment of Nehammer speaks in favor of that.

Austria's Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned on Saturday to save his coalition government from the brink of collapse, as the Greens' junior coalition partner put the request as the only possible condition for keeping the coalition after Kurz became the target of investigation on suspicion of corruption, reports Reuters.

Austria's Sebastian Kurz on Oct. 9 announced he was stepping down as chancellor following pressure on him to resign after he was implicated in a corruption scandal.

His announcement in a televised media statement caps a spectacular rise in politics and a tumultuous four years as chancellor, in which his government already collapsed once.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism, a police agency tasked with protecting the constitutional organs of the Austrian state, has allocated three agents to shadow Justice Minister Alma Zadic, citing the risk of a planned attack on her, the Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported.

The Conservative Austrian People's Party (ANP), led by its chairman and former chancellor Sebastian Kurz, wins 37% of the vote on Sunday's snap election in the Austrian National Council (lower house of parliament), according to the exit poll of Austrian television channel OE24.TV by the TACC.

Austrian MPs removed Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz from power. This happened during a parliamentary vote of no-confidence vote against him, Reuters reported.

The vote against Kurz was supported by the Austrian Social Democratic Party and the far-right Austrian Freedom Party, which a week ago ruled in a coalition with Kurz.

Austrian Chancellor and leader of the Austrian People's Party, Sebastian Kurz, announced the end of the coalition government with the Freedom Party of Austria after the resignation of Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, announced by world agencies.

Austria's vice chancellor and longtime far-right leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, said on May 18 he was stepping down over video footage that threatened to bring down the right-wing coalition government.

Austria's Supreme Prosecution Office has begun to investigate the secrecy funding of the ruling coalition of the Austrian Party of Freedom (APS) from abroad in exchange for access to state treaties. This was reported by the Secretary General of the Constitutional Affairs Ministry, Christian Pilnacek, for the Curie newspaper.