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Austria election: voting opens with Sebastian Kurz likely to regain power
Voting is under way in elections in Austria that could result in the former chancellor Sebastian Kurz renewing a controversial pact with the far right to reclaim his position as the world’s youngest state leader. The conservative-nationalist coalition government collapsed in May after the emergence of a covertly filmed video in which the then deputy chancellor and Freedom party (FPÖ) leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, offered lucrative public contracts in exchange for campaign support to a woman purporting to be the niece of a Russian oligarch. But with Strache banished from office, the FPÖ headed by two ... (full story)