Top candidate of Peoples Party (OeVP) and former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz talks with journalists after casting his ballot at a polling station in Vienna, Austria September 29, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz triumphed in Sunday's parliamentary election while the scandal-tainted far right took a beating and the Greens surged, leaving Kurz the option of forming a coalition with either of them.
The election followed the collapse in May of Kurz's coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after a video sting scandal that forced FPO Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache to step down.
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