{"id":13102,"date":"2019-05-22T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/austrias-kurz-appoints-technocrats-after-fpo-leaves-cabinet\/"},"modified":"2019-05-23T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T15:47:23","slug":"austrias-coalition-government-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/austrias-coalition-government-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria&#8217;s Coalition Government Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like it&#8217;s not only the beleaguered Teressa May who is having trouble controlling Parliament, the same thing is happening in Austria, all be it for differing reasons.\u00a0 While Mrs may is suffering due to Brexit woes and what some would argue a pretty poor showing as PM, the crisis in Austria is due to a corruption scandal involving Russia. This has led to the Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) quitting the coalition leaving the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz facing a no-confidence vote in parliament on Monday and his ruling centre-right People&#8217;s Party (\u00d6VP) has only 62 seats in the 183-seat parliament.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13119\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13119\" class=\"wp-image-13119 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Heinz-Christian-Strache-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Heinz-Christian-Strache-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Heinz-Christian-Strache-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Heinz-Christian-Strache-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Heinz-Christian-Strache-750x484.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Heinz-Christian-Strache.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache Editorial credit: Alexandros Michailidis \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The scandal &#8211; &#8220;Ibiza-gate&#8221; arose from a video recorded on the Spanish island allegedly showing far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache drinking at a villa with FP\u00d6 parliament group leader Johann Gudenus in the presence of a woman introduced as &#8220;&#8221;Alyona Makarova&#8221; the niece of a Russian Oligarch. During the evening&#8217;s conversation, Mr Strache appears to propose offering her public contracts if she agrees to buys a large stake in the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung &#8211; and then changes its editorial policy to support his Party. Christian Strache has resigned on the news, however, it has not stopped the effective collapse of the government and possibly worse for him it has caused his wife to walk out on him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The wife of Austria\u2019s far-right former Vice-Chancellor who has resigned in the wake of the \u201cIbiza-gate\u201d scandal has now allegedly dumped him&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W3YwgzdolR\">https:\/\/t.co\/W3YwgzdolR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austria Metro (@AustriaMetro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustriaMetro\/status\/1131554337711370240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>. Elections were due in September, but these may be brought forward depending on the result of Monday&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/news\/world\/austria-s-ibiza-gate-video-what-we-know\/article\/550404#.XOafkPWEXgI.twitter\">Here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like it&#8217;s not only the beleaguered Teressa May who is having trouble controlling Parliament, the same thing is happening in Austria, all be it for differing reasons.\u00a0 While Mrs may is suffering due to Brexit woes and what some would argue a pretty poor showing as PM, the crisis in Austria is due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1280,1281],"class_list":["post-13102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-news","tag-austria","tag-heinz-christian-strache"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13120,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions\/13120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}