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Austrian Leader Calls for Snap Election
Austrian Leader Calls for Snap Election
May 18, 2019 at 4:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/18/austrian-leader-calls-for-snap-election/
"SNIP....
“Austria’s chancellor called Saturday for snap elections after the country’s far-right vice chancellor resigned over a secretly filmed video from 2017 that renewed questions about whether Russia had a direct line into a government at the heart of Europe,” the New York Times reports.
“The video showed Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the far-right Freedom Party promising government contracts to a woman claiming to be the niece of a Russian oligarch.”
......SNIP"
