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Kurz favored to return as chancellor in Austria election
Vote meant to restore political normality after a scandal
26 September, 12:00
(ANSA-AP) - VIENNA - Austrians vote Sunday in an election
meant to restore political normality after a scandal that
brought down conservative ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's
center-right coalition in May. The 33-year-old Kurz is strongly
favored to return to power.
The country of 8.8 million people in the heart of Europe has
been run by a non-partisan interim administration under
Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein, a former head of its top court,
since the drama in spring that led to Kurz pulling the plug on
his coalition with the far-right Freedom Party and then being
ousted in a parliamentary confidence vote.
The election offers a test of the far-right party's recovery
from the scandal that brought down its longtime leader. Polls
show a big lead for Kurz's center-right People's Party.
(ANSA-AP).
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