Austrian Chancellor Kurz was ousted by parliament in a no-confidence vote on Monday, paving the way for a new election.
VIENNA — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was ousted by parliament in a no-confidence vote Monday, paving the way for a new election.
The young leader defiantly vowed that he and his center-right People's Party would return to power with increased strength. The vote capped a week of turmoil at the top in Austria that started when Kurz pulled the plug on his coalition with the far-right Freedom Party after a video emerged showing that party's leaderA new election is already planned for September, and President Alexander Van der Bellen now needs to appoint a caretaker government to serve until then.
"In the end the people will decide in September, and I'm happy about that," he said to chants from the crowd of"Chancellor Kurz." No-confidence votes are common in Austrian politics, but this is the first one to have succeeded in its modern history. The result makes Kurz the shortest-serving chancellor since 1945 with 525 days in office, according to the Austria Press Agency.
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