| Author (Corporate) | Euro|Topics |
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| Publisher | Euro|Topics |
| Series Title | Debates |
| Series Details | May 2017 |
| Publication Date | 15/05/2017 |
| Content Type | News, Overview |
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The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic. Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).Austria's ruling coalition between the social democratic SPÖ [SPOe] and conservative ÖVP was plunged into a crisis by the resignation of ÖVP (Austrian People's Party's) vice chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner on the 10 May 2017. Austria foreign minister and fellow ÖVP member Sebastian Kurz said on the 12 May 2017 that 'I believe early elections are the right way forward'. It was expected that Reinhold Mitterlehner would also resign as leader of the ÖVP and be replaced by Sebastian Kurz. Sebastian Kurz was elected to be the acting leader of the Austrian Peoples Party on the 14 May 2017 and said that an autumn 2017 election was likely. The conservatives would come out winning, commentators in European newspapers predicted. Christian Kern was the incumbent Chancellor of Austria and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). He admitted on the 14 May 2017 that the governing coalition with the ÖVP had shattered and that an election was inevitable. On the 16 May 2017 party chiefs of the major parties agreed on the 15 October 2017 as the date for the general election in Austria. Sebastian Kurz was formally elected leader of the Austrian People’s Party on the 1 July 2017 at a party convention in Linz. He announced that in the forthcoming general election he would campaign under the banner of a new name, the Sebastian Kurz list. |
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| Source Link | http://www.eurotopics.net/en/179041/government-crisis-in-austria |
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| Countries / Regions | Austria |
