Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces his resignation after corruption charges

Austrian Chancellor Kurz, suspected of corruption, announced his resignation on Saturday 9 October. “It would be irresponsible to slip into months of chaos or deadlock”, Kurz told reporters in Vienna, explaining that he was stepping down to ” stability “ of the country while refuting “False accusations”. “I want to give way to avoid chaos”, he added, saying he proposed the name of his foreign minister, Alexander Schallenberg, to succeed him.

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According to the prosecution, between 2016 and 2018, “Of the resources of the ministry” finances were used for “Fund partially manipulated opinion polls that served an exclusively partisan political interest”.

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