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		</div><p>Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been ousted by parliament in a no-confidence vote, paving the way for a caretaker government before a new election in which the young leader and his People’s Party could emerge with a stronger mandate.</p>
<p>The vote came after a week of turmoil at the top in Austria.</p>
<p>Mr Kurz pulled the plug on his coalition with the far-right Freedom Party after a video emerged showing that party’s leader appearing to be offering lucrative government contracts to a purported Russian investor.</p>
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<p>A new election is already planned for September, and President Alexander Van der Bellen now needs to appoint a caretaker government to serve until then.</p>
<p>We will certainly not put any stones on the path of the next government</p>
<p>No-confidence votes are common in Austrian politics, but this is the first one to have succeeded in its modern history.</p>
<p>It also makes Mr Kurz the shortest-serving chancellor since 1945 with 525 days in office, according to the Austria Press Agency.</p>
<p>Mr Kurz loses the advantage of campaigning as an incumbent chancellor but remains popular and his centre-right party finished first Sunday in Austria in the European Parliament election with 34.9% support, a gain of almost eight percentage points over 2014.</p>
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<p>He remained composed amid withering criticism from opponents in parliament ahead of the no-confidence vote, telling the body that he was “proud and satisfied with the work we have done as a government in the past year and a half”.</p>
<p>He pledged to work constructively with the caretaker government.</p>
<figure id="attachment_132714" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-132714" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/553C02BB-9480-4663-918A-A786969DBD02.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-132714" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/553C02BB-9480-4663-918A-A786969DBD02.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" data-wp-pid="132714" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-132714" class="wp-caption-text">The empty government bank, left, is empty after the government lost a confidence vote</figcaption></figure>
<p>“We will certainly not put any stones on the path of the next government,” he said.</p>
<p>“We will support them as much as possible.”</p>
<p>Mr Kurz also suggested he had no choice but to end his partnership with the Freedom Party after the video of Heinz-Christian Strache emerged.</p>
<p>Mr Strache has since resigned as Freedom Party leader, and his party’s ministers were replaced last week by interim technocrats until the new election.</p>
<p>“It was clear for me that it meant the end of the coalition,” Mr Kurz said.</p>
<p>Herbert Kickl, a Freedom Party politician who served as interior minister in the coalition, accused Mr Kurz of using the Strache video as a chance to consolidate his own power.</p>
<p>“He made the entire Freedom Party responsible for the wrong actions of two people,” Mr Kickl told parliament.</p>
<figure id="attachment_132715" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-132715" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/316E8679-727C-4BEA-8538-CBCF3DC7CEBA.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-132715" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/316E8679-727C-4BEA-8538-CBCF3DC7CEBA.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="422" data-wp-pid="132715" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-132715" class="wp-caption-text">Austrian government ministers leave the plenary hall after parliament had voted to oust Sebastian Kurz</figcaption></figure>
<p>“He tried to take advantage of a difficult situation of a government partner. He tried to enlarge his own power base.”</p>
<p>Social Democrat leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner, whose party brought the no-confidence vote, issued the same charge.</p>
<p>“This is a shameless, unrestrained and irresponsible power grab, this is what we are witnessing,” she said.</p>
<p>“But the power in our country is based on the people, and not you.”</p>
<p>Mr Kurz, 32, became Europe’s youngest leader when he was sworn in just before Christmas 2017.</p>
<p>It was not immediately clear when the Austrian president would appoint the new government.</p>
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