Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz left office on Tuesday after parliament voted...
VIENNA - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz left office on Tuesday after parliament voted out his conservative provisional government, blaming him in part for a political crisis triggered by a video sting scandal that felled his far-right deputy.
Being ousted does not spell the political demise of the 32-year-old Kurz, however. He remains leader of his People’s Party and intends to lead it back to victory in September after it came first in Sunday’s European Parliament election. “The disturbing image of Ibiza - however you say it, Ibiza? - has buried itself deep in our heads, not only here but also of course abroad,” Van der Bellen, 75, said at the ceremony in which he dissolved the cabinet, referring to the video filmed on that island in which Strache spoke of fixing state contracts.
Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Hartwig Loeger took over temporarily as chancellor and will represent Austria at a summit of European Union leaders in Brussels on Tuesday.
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