Austria's Kurz, famed for leaning to far right, could change course


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Sep 2019

FILE PHOTO Top candidate of Peoples Party OeVP and Foreign Minister Sebastan Kurz arrives in front of his partys headquarters in Vienna Austria October 13 2017.  REUTERSLeonhard Foeger

FILE PHOTO: Top candidate of Peoples Party (OeVP) and Foreign Minister Sebastan Kurz arrives in front of his party's headquarters in Vienna, Austria October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian conservative Sebastian Kurz ate the far right's lunch two years ago with a hardline immigration policy, then formed a coalition with them, only to ditch them after a video sting scandal. Now he is set to lead the country again at just 33.

There is little doubt the former chancellor and his party will win Sunday's parliamentary election. But he is an increasingly polarising figure and he has already collapsed two governments, one with each of the two parties that could give him a solid majority in parliament. Can he keep going?

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