Austria gets new Chancellor after Sebastian Kurz quits

Berlin, October 11 Austria got a new Chancellor on Monday, two days after former leader Sebastian Kurz resigned amid corruption allegations, but the direction of government policy was not expected to change. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen swore in...

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Updated At : 12:21 PM Oct 12, 2021 IST

Berlin, October 11

Austria got a new Chancellor on Monday, two days after former leader Sebastian Kurz resigned amid corruption allegations, but the direction of government policy was not expected to change.

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen swore in Alexander Schallenberg, the former foreign minister, as chancellor. Career diplomat Michael Linhart became the country’s new foreign minister.

Schallenberg, 52, said he would do “everything to refill the trenches” caused by the recent government crisis and also “do everything in my power to serve Austria”. — AP