Kurz exits, Schallenberg enters. After the “scandal of the polls” change of the guard in Vienna
Sebastian Kurz, pushed by the forewarning of a scandal, leaves the leadership of the Austrian government to his right hand man, Alexander Schallenberg. To listen to some critics, the one staged in Vienna would be just a change of facade.
“I will work closely with Sebastian Kurz, the president of the new Popular Party, which is the first political force in parliament. – With Kurz the party has won two policies. It would be safe and undemocratic to do something different.”
Kurz had chosen to resign after rumors of polls manipulated in his favor thanks to public money that ended up in the coffers of one of the main Austrian publishing groups.
Accusations that, however, do not convince the new chancellor:
“I believe that the accusations against Kurz are false and I am convinced that at the end of the story it will be discovered that there was nothing illegal in it”.
The oppositions (social democrats, nationalists and liberals) have already asked for an extraordinary parliamentary session to discuss the crisis, the second with judicial consequences after the Ibiza case, a corruption scandal that in May 2019 recorded an accusation of perjury against Kurz who led to another government crisis.