Just hours after a big win for his party in the European elections, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will face a no-confidence vote in parliamentVIENNA - Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was set Monday to lose a no-confidence vote from MPs, which will see him removed from office over a corruption scandal that brought down his coalition government. Norbert Hofer, chief of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), said Monday that his party "will support" the motion, which is also backed by the main opposition Social Democrats (SPOe). The no-confidence vote is set to take place in a special sitting of parliament later Monday, making Kurz the first chancellor in post-war Austrian history to be removed in this fashion. 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.

Source: Bangkok Post May 27, 2019 08:26 UTC