VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) expelled its scandal-hit leader Heinz-Christian Strache on Friday and he said he was considering a political comeback next year, fuelling speculation of a split.
Strache led his party into a coalition in 2017 with conservatives led by Sebastian Kurz, but their government collapsed in May when a video surfaced showing Strache at a dinner party in Ibiza offering to fix government contracts while in discussion with a woman posing as a Russian oligarch's niece.
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