Vienna. A big bang in Austria: According to consistent media reports, Austria’s ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz wants to withdraw completely from politics. Opposite the Austrian daily newspaper “Crown“He gave the birth of his son as the reason. Austria’s Interior Minister Karl Nehammer is now acting as the new ÖVP boss. Kurz wants to make a personal statement at 11.30 a.m.
Kurz resigned as head of government in October after corruption investigators searched the Chancellery and the ÖVP headquarters, among other things. Kurz and some of his close political colleagues are suspected by the prosecutor of having circulated manipulated polls in the media. Public funds are said to have been diverted for this. Among other things, the allegation of infidelity is in the room.