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All Austrian far-right ministers to resign: party spokesman
VIENNA, May 21, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – All remaining ministers from Austria’s
far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) are to resign from the government after their
party colleague Herbert Kickl was fired as interior minister, a party
spokesman said Monday.
The ministers would make good on their threat to resign en masse if Kickl
was forced out, the spokesman confirmed to the Austrian APA agency.
It comes shortly after Kickl was fired by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in
order not to prejudice any possible enquiry into the corruption scandal which
forced the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache and the
collapse of the country’s coalition government.
BSS/AFP/MSY/0931 hrs