Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz announced his resignation in a speech on Saturday night. It happens after the police acted against his office on Wednesday.
Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz resigns. Here is Kurz in Vienna in June.
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The case immediately led to a deep political crisis in Austria, and on Saturday Kurz threw away the cards.
– The country is more important than my person, said Kurz, who expressed that he wanted the government cooperation between his conservative party ÖVP and the Greens to continue without him.
Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg takes over as Prime Minister.
Kurz has been under strong pressure after the police operation on Wednesday, which included both the prime minister’s office and the offices of his conservative party ÖVP.
The suspicion is that Kurz and some of his closest associates used public funds to ensure that Kurz received positive publicity in the press, with the goal that he would become party leader and prime minister.
On Friday, ÖVP’s coalition partner The Greens went out and demanded Kurz ‘resignation.
In his speech on Saturday, Kurz emphasized that the allegations were untrue, but stressed the need for political stability.
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