Once Sebastian Kurz loses his aura of political invincibility, his party’s regional chiefs will drop him quicker than a hot “Knödel”
Mr Kurz and nine others stand accused of an elaborate plot to upend the leadership of the conservative Austrian People’s Party , and ultimately of the country. Prosecutors allege that, starting in 2016, the finance ministry siphoned taxpayers’ money to fund bogus opinion polls, published in a compliant newspaper, to help Mr Kurz unseat Reinhold Mitterlehner, then head of the, and take his job. Fake invoices are said to have disguised the ploy.
future of European conservatism, his freshness appealed to voters tired of the grubbiness that has long bedevilled Austrian public life. Instead he has been embroiled in endless scandal. The first coalition he led, a controversial alliance with the far-right Freedom Party , collapsed in 2019 when anleader was ensnared in a video sting. In May Mr Kurz was accused of perjuring himself before a parliamentary committee investigating corruption.
Mr Kurz’s fall coincided with a comparable defenestration in Prague. On October 9th Andrej Babis, the Czech Republic’s billionaire prime minister, lost an election to a five-party alliance. Mr Babis has also faced allegations of corruption, linked tosubsidies channelled to his agricultural empire. Yet Milos Zeman, the erratic president, may try to delay the exit of Mr Babis, an ally, as long as possible.
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