Austria's Kurz set to return to power and look left after Ibiza scandal


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  • Tuesday, 24 Sep 2019

Persons pass election campaign posters of the head of Austria's Peoples Party (OeVP) former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Social Democrats (SPOe) party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner in Vienna, Austria September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

VIENNA (Reuters) - Young Austrian conservative Sebastian Kurz is cruising to victory in Sunday's parliamentary election, but after a video sting blew up his coalition with the far right, he could well reach to the other end of the spectrum for a partner this time.

Former far-right leader and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache quit in May over the video of him in Ibiza with a woman posing as a Russian oligarch's niece, apparently offering to fix state contracts and explaining how to dodge party financing laws.

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