(ANSA-AP) - VIENNA, OCTOBER 7 - Austria's president has given center-right leader Sebastian Kurz the job of forming a new government after his party emerged as the strongest by far from an election a week ago. The 33-year-old Kurz received the mandate Monday from President Alexander Van der Bellen, kicking off what could be the lengthy process of putting together a new governing coalition. The non-partisan interim government of Chancellor Brigitte Bier lein, installed after a scandal surrounding the far-right Freedom Party brought down Kurz's previous government in May, will remain in place until a new administration is ready. Kurz's People's Party can choose between reviving its previous coalition with the Freedom Party. Or it can form a coalition wi th the center-left Social Democrats, a familiar and unloved combination that has frequently run Austria or it can ally with the resurgent Greens. (ANSA-AP).