Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is ousted in a no-confidence vote in parliament following a video-sting scandal
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, next to Interior Minister Eckart Ratz, attends a session of the Parliament in Vienna, Austria on May 27, 2019.
The move comes just after Kurz celebrated a big win for his conservative People's Party in Sunday's European elections, which is projected to gain 34.9 percent of the vote and two extra European Parliament seats. Social Democrats leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner accused Kurz of an unprecedented "uncurbed and shameless power grab" when bringing forward the motion against him. Kurz's former partner, the FPOe, also supported the motion.
The far-right, meanwhile, seemed to have suffered a setback in Sunday's vote over "Ibiza-gate," falling from 19.7 percent to 17.2 percent and losing one of their four MEPs. After Strache's resignation, Kurz also sacked FPOe interior minister Herbert Kickl, arguing he could not oversee any possible investigation into his own party's wrongdoing.
But even before the current crisis, Kurz found himself constantly having to bat away criticism for alleged extremist sympathies among FPOe members.
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