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		</div><p>Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz faces a no-confidence vote in parliament next week after his governing coalition collapsed over a corruption scandal.</p>
<p>Speaker Wolfgang Sobotka, a member of Mr Kurz’s conservative People’s Party, set a special session of the legislature for Monday.</p>
<p>Opposition parties wanted it held this week, but Mr Sobotka said he wants to <em>“give space to the EU election campaign”</em>, the Austria Press Agency reported. Austria elects MEPs on Sunday.</p>
<h5><strong>Read:</strong> <a href="http://londonglossy.com/austrian-government-heading-for-collapse-over-video-scandal/">Austrian government in disarray over video scandal</a></h5>
<p>The opposition Now party has drawn up a no-confidence motion seeking to oust Mr Kurz before an early national election expected in September.</p>
<p>Mr Kurz called for that election after far-right Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who was his vice chancellor, resigned.</p>
<p>Mr Strache was shown on video appearing to offer favours to a purported Russian investor during a meeting two years ago on the Spanish island of Ibiza.</p>
<p>Mr Kurz’s party holds only 61 of the 183 seats in parliament. It is not yet clear whether the second- and third-biggest parties, the centre-left Social Democrats and the Freedom Party, will vote to remove him – depriving the 32-year-old of the advantage of going into the national election as the incumbent.</p>
<p>That would leave President Alexander Van der Bellen to name an interim chancellor.</p>
<p>While Mr Kurz remains in office Mr Van der Bellen has asked him to propose interim ministers to replace the Freedom Party politicians who have left the government — including the interior, defence and labour ministers.</p>
<p>The president said foreign minister Karin Kneissl, who was nominated by the Freedom Party but is not a party member, has agreed to stay on.</p>
<p>Mr Van der Bellen, a liberal whose position puts him above the cut-and-thrust of politics, said the interim ministers will have to be “impeccable experts”.</p>
<p><em>“Let us not forget that there has been a massive betrayal of trust as a result of this disturbing image of immorality from Ibiza,”</em> he said after meeting Mr Kurz.</p>
<p>Mr Strache has said he was set up through illegal surveillance but conceded his behaviour was “stupid, irresponsible and a mistake”.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, he sounded a combative note.</p>
<p><em>“We will find the people behind the criminally produced video and the dirty campaigning and I will prove my innocence!”</em> Mr Strache wrote in a Facebook post.</p>
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