Austria election: voting opens with Sebastian Kurz likely to regain power
(The Guardian Austria)

Former chancellor may renew pact with far right four months after corruption scandalVoting is under way in elections in Austria that could result in the former chancellor Sebastian Kurz renewing a controversial pact with the far right to reclaim his position as the world´s youngest state leader.The conservative-nationalist coalition government collapsed in May after the emergence of a covertly filmed video in which the then deputy chancellor and Freedom party (FPÖ) leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, offered lucrative public contracts in exchange for campaign support to a woman purporting to be the niece of a Russian oligarch. Continue reading...