Austrian Parliament To Vote On No Confidence Motion Against Chancellor On Monday - Reports

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published May 21, 2019 | 03:59 PM

The Austrian parliament will vote on a no confidence motion brought by the opposition against chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Monday, May 27, President of the Austrian National Council Wolfgang Sobotka said Tuesday, according to focus.de portal

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st May, 2019) The Austrian parliament will vote on a no confidence motion brought by the opposition against chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Monday, May 27, President of the Austrian National Council Wolfgang Sobotka said Tuesday, according to focus.de portal.

The vote comes after the collapse of a coalition between Kurz's Austrian People's Party (OVP) and Freedom Party of Austria (FPO). Last week, a video emerged of FPO leader Heinz-Christian Strache promising government contracts to a woman, purportedly a niece of a Russian oligarch. Strache has since resigned as Kurz's deputy and the party leader.

Kurz has suggested that Interior Minister Herbert Kickl should leave his job as well.

In return, Kickl indicated that the FPO would not back Kurz at the no confidence vote.

"It would now be almost naive of Kurz to assume that, following Kurz's lack of trust in us, we at the Freedom Party would not have any mistrust in him. When the special session of the parliament takes place � those who give trust receive trust. Those who give mistrust, get mistrust," Kickl said according to OE24 online portal.