(ANSA-AP) - FRANKFURT, MAY 19 - Austria's president says the
first few days of September would be the best time to hold an
early election after a covert video scandal shook up the
country's politics.
President Alexander Van der Bellen spoke Sunday after meeting
with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. Kurz called for a new
election after the resignation Saturday of his vice chancellor,
Heinz-Christian Strache, who apologized for his actions in a
video where he was apparently offering government contracts to a
purported Russian investor at a boozy gathering in Ibiza.
Kurz decided not to continue the governing coalition between
his center-right People's Party and Strache's anti-migrant
Freedom Party. The video was published by two German media
outlets. Van der Bellen said "everything must be done to restore
trust in officeholders, in the representatives of the people."
(ANSA-AP).
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