The ex-chancellor is back on all channels – and is fueling the rumor mill before the ÖVP party conference. What drives him and what does his presence mean for the party and his successor Karl Nehammer?
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Leila Al-Serori and Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
He’s back – maybe he never left? Before the ÖVP party conference this Saturday, Sebastian Kurz is present on all channels as ever. An interview in the Crown newspaper on Sunday, in which he, who had actually announced his move to the USA to work for a Peter Thiel company, explained: “Vienna is our base.”