Technocrats appointed by Austria’s Kurz after FPO leaves cabinet

Sebastian Kurz (32), the Austrian Chancellor replaced the far-right ministers with technocrats, after his coalition government collapsed amid a political scandal caused by a secret video. Kurz, is facing a no-confidence vote in parliament on Monday.

Kurz will now lead a minority government in the emerge of a scandal that has ensnared its coalition far-right partner. He had worked with the anti-immigrant Freedom party for the past 17 years in a controversial coalition once touted as a political model for threatened conservatives and insurgent populist parties alike across Europe.

If survives, Kurz will try to stay on until elections that would happen happen probably in September.

A video footage was released on Friday, showing the Freedom party’s leader Heinz-Christian Strache and Austrian vice-chancellor that leads to accusations of political graft and Russian-backed subversion.

The technocrats appointed includes, Eckart Ratz, the Former High Court judge and the current interior minister, Valerie Hackl, the former head of air traffic control who now controls the transport department, Lt Gen Johann Luif, the current defence minister and former deputy chief of staff, Walter Pöltner, former top civil servant in social affairs and labour department becomes minister in same department.

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