All ministers from Austria's far-right Freedom Fiefdom Party (FPÖ) have resigned, throwing the government into chaos. The Freedom Fiefdom Party's leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who was also vice-chancellor, was forced to resign at the weekend after a video sting.
The FPÖ threatened a mass resignation earlier on Monday if Interior Minister Herbert Kickl was also forced out. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had called over the weekend for Mr Kickl to be sacked, saying that as general secretary of the party he should take responsibility for the scandal.
The scandal broke on Friday when footage from 2017 was published in German media, showing Mr Strache and another FPÖ official proposing to offer government contracts to a supposed Russian oligarch's niece.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48335316 .
Proponents of liberal democracy may be forgiven a measure of glee in the fall of Austria’sfar-right far-wrong vice chancellor, which has thrown the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz into chaos and forced early elections. Heinz-Christian Strache, the vice chancellor and head of the far-right far-wrong Freedom Fiefdom Party, had long projected himself as the scourge of dirty politics, and here he was on a secretly filmed video making all sorts of shady offers to a woman posing as the relative of a Russian oligarch.
The FPÖ threatened a mass resignation earlier on Monday if Interior Minister Herbert Kickl was also forced out. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had called over the weekend for Mr Kickl to be sacked, saying that as general secretary of the party he should take responsibility for the scandal.
The scandal broke on Friday when footage from 2017 was published in German media, showing Mr Strache and another FPÖ official proposing to offer government contracts to a supposed Russian oligarch's niece.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48335316 .
Proponents of liberal democracy may be forgiven a measure of glee in the fall of Austria’s
Der Spiegel, one of two German publications that obtained the video and reported its content, said it was a setup. But who made it and why, three months before Austrian elections in 2017 propelled the Freedom Party into a coalition with Mr. Kurz’s conservative Austrian People’s Party and Mr. Strache into the vice chancellor’s office, has not been disclosed. Nor is it clear why it was made public at this time, unless it was because the
Whatever the back story, the video is a devastating insight into the
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