Sebastian Kurz again became Chancellor of Austria and the youngest head of government of the EU

Sebastian Kurz again became Chancellor of Austria and the youngest head of government of the EU

The press service of the President of Russia

Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen has sworn in a new coalition government of the Republic consisting of the conservative Austrian people’s party (övp) and Green party. The leader of ANP Sebastian Kurz became Austrian Chancellor, leader of the “Green” Werner Kogler, Vice-Chancellor and Minister of culture, arts, public service and sports. About it reports TASS.

At the same time, the head of the Austrian Republic freed from the duties of the transitional government headed by Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein. He was replaced first in the history of Austria, the Cabinet of Ministers with the participation of ANP and “Green”.

The government of Austria for the greater part of the modern history of the Republic is formed from two political forces on the principle of senior and Junior partner of the coalition because no one party after the Second world war had not yet managed to get the vast majority of votes in the elections to the sole formation of the Cabinet.

The new government is represented by 10 Ministers from the ANP, four Ministers from the “Green”. From ANP foreign Minister was Alexander Ellenberg, the Minister of internal Affairs – Carl Nehammer, the Minister of defence Claudia Tanner, Minister of Finance, Gernot Bluemel, economy Minister – Margaret Shramek, Minister of sustainable development and tourism – Elizabeth Kessinger, Minister of education, science and research – Heinz Fassmann , Minister (without portfolio) of work – Christine Ashbacher, Minister for European Affairs in the Federal Chancellery – Carolina Altstadter, Minister for integration in the Federal Chancellery – Susanna Raab.

From the “Green” party Minister of the environment, transport, infrastructure and technology became the Leonora Geissler, Minister of justice – Alma of Tadic, Minister of social Affairs, consumer protection and health – Rudy Unsober. In addition to Ministers, the government included two of the state Secretary from each party from the NGA at the Ministry of ecology – Magnus Brunner, from the “Green” in the office of the Vice-Chancellor Ulrike Lunacek.

33-year-old Kurtz the second time he occupied the post of Chancellor of Austria and was again the youngest head of government in the European Union. Before that, in 2013, at the age of 27 he became the youngest foreign Minister in Austrian history.

In may 2019, the government Kurz was dismissed due to vote of no confidence in Parliament amid political scandal “Ibiza-gate” involving ex-Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian strache. From December 2019, for a short time the youngest European Prime Minister was a 34-year-old Sanna Marin in Finland.

Early elections to the national Council of Austria held on 29 September 2019. The main winners in the election were grew from 37.5% of the votes and the Green party with 13.9 per cent of the votes, which was able after two years to return to the Parliament. In early October, 2019 Kurtz received from the President of Austria the mandate to form a new government of the Republic after a confident victory of ANP in the parliamentary elections.

January 1, 2020 Kurtz announced that his party agreed with the greens to form a joint Cabinet of Ministers of Austria. Political forces led the coalition negotiations on November 11.

In Austria in may 2019 has sparked a political scandal called “Ibiza-gate”. The German publication Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung have distributed a short excerpt video of 2017 with the participation of the leader of the Austrian freedom party of Heinz-Christian strache and his assistant Johanna Gudenus. The footage, taken with a hidden camera, they discussed with some Russian-speaking woman, posing as the niece of the Russian oligarch, the possibility of granting her easier access to construction contracts in Austria in return for financial support the Austrian freedom party (fpö) before the parliamentary elections.

Publish videos two years later led to the resignation of strache as leader of the fpö and Vice-Chancellor of Austria, which he began at the end of the 2017 elections. APS left the government coalition with the övp. The Cabinet of Ministers led by Chancellor Kurtz after the no confidence vote of the Parliament was dismissed. This led to the holding in September of the early parliamentary elections. Chancellor of the technical government was appointed Brigitte Bierlein.