Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has become Austria’s new chancellor after fellow Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) member Sebastian Kurz stepped down amid a corruption probe to save the ruling coalition with the Greens.
The swearing-in ceremony took place at the office of Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen in the capital Vienna on Monday.
During the brief event, Schallenberg pledged to faithfully observe the country’s constitution and execute his duties as chancellor to the best of his knowledge and abilities. He was then congratulated by the president on his new role.
Schallenberg would be “of great use” to Austria as the chancellor due to his vast diplomatic experience and ability to bring “the most contradicting positions to a common ground,” Van der Bellen insisted.
Former Austrian Ambassador to France Michael Linhart has also been confirmed as the new foreign minister during the ceremony.
Schallenberg delivered his first address as chancellor shortly after his swearing-in, promising to do his best to bring stability to the country’s political system, continuing efforts aimed at tackling Covid-19 and boosting the pandemic-stricken economy.
“I will of course work very closely… with Sebastian Kurz,” he insisted. Acting in any other way would’ve been “absurd” as it was Kurz’s leadership that allowed the ÖVP to win two national elections, he added.
The new chancellor also insisted that the corruption accusations against his predecessor were “false” and “at the end of the day it will turn out that there was nothing to them.”
Schallenberg is a career diplomat who worked with the Foreign Ministry for more than two decades and was appointed FM in June 2019. The 52-year-old was recommended for the job by his predecessor and fellow member of the conservative ÖVP party, Sebastian Kurz, who quit the office on Saturday.
Kurz stepped down in order to rescue his party’s ruling coalition with the Greens amid a corruption investigation against him.
The Greens, who entered the coalition on a promise of “clean politics,” insisted that he should resign because of the probe and threatened to initiate a vote of no confidence on Tuesday if it didn’t happen.
The investigators, who raided ÖVP’s offices on Wednesday, suspect the former chancellor and nine other people of illegally using government funds to ensure positive media coverage between 2016 and 2018.
Kurz denied any wrongdoing and promised to fight to clear his name, while becoming ÖVP’s leader in the parliament.
The 35-year-old was Austria’s chancellor from December 2017 to May 2019 before sweeping to power again in January 2020. He has always been a vocal critic of EU’s asylum-seeker policies and made headlines in August by refusing to accept any more refugees fleeing Afghanistan in the wake of the takeover by the Taliban.
Like this story? Share it with a friend!
source: RT
Împotriva articolelor redacției noastre, persoanele nemulțumite pot formula Contestație în termen de 10 zile de la publicarea articolului, la judecătoria Orășenească nr. 1 München Bayern Deutschland, in conformitate cu Legea federală Germană. Considerăm că nu se pot formula acțiuni la instanțele din România deoarece nici o persoană care activează în trustul nostru nu poate fi extrasă de sub jurisdicția federală germană. Considerăm că redacția noastră nu răspunde în fața autorităților din România ci doar celor federale sau civile germane. deoarece legea română nu are efecte de extraneitate asupra redacției chiar dacă subiectul știrilor face obiectul unor evenimente sau persoane din România și sunt scrise în limba română. Limba română nu este izvor de extraneitate a legii.
absolvent WEB DESIGN Academia Britanică de Comunicare Iasi - absolvent COMUNICARE IN AFACERI Academia Britanica de Afaceri si Comunicare -absolvent JURNALISM EDITORIAL - London School University - 2019 inscris la echivalare diploma la Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara - absolvent studii de Drept Universitatea Europeană Drăgan, cursuri in Drept la Universitatea de Vest Timisoara, absolvent studii de proiectare, pastor coordonator in Biserica Protestanta Evanghelica,
Android Developer pe Google Play și plugin developer la Oxwall, creator de teme Wordpress și Oxwall, operator Wordpress, Drupal, Oxwall, Osclass, Moodle, tehnologii HTML și PHP
Police in Germany have arrested a German-Iranian citizen on suspicion that he exported €1.1 million of equipment to Iranian firms blacklisted by the EU for use in Tehran’s nuclear program. On Tuesday, Germany’s public prosecutor announced that the man, referred to only as Alexander J., was arrested in the Segeberg district of Schleswig-Holstein. The federal […]
Benedict XVI’s legal advisors insist that he was unaware of the priests’ behavior Former Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday issued a “heartfelt request for forgiveness” over any errors made in failing to prevent child sexual abuse by clerics during his tenure as Archbishop of Munich and Freising. Benedict’s legal advisors insist that he was unaware […]
A lorry carrying explosives collided with a motorcycle, triggering the blast On Thursday, a motorcycle collided with a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in the rural settlement of Apiate, in western Ghana, the government said on Friday. The collision set off a blast which flattened a rural town. Police stated that the motorcycle […]
