Far-right to vote against Austrian leader in parliament
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Austria's far-right Freedom Party plans to back a no-confidence vote against the country's chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, following their coalition break over a video scandal.
Freedom Party interim leader Norbert Hofer said his lawmakers will back a motion by the opposition Social Democrats that is being voted on Monday afternoon.
Hofer took over after his predecessor, Heinz-Christian Strache, resigned earlier this month following the publication of a video in which he appeared to be offering favors to a purported Russian investor.
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The video prompted Kurz to pull the plug on his coalition government with the Freedom Party and call fresh elections for the fall.
According to provisional results, Kurz's center-right Austrian People's Party came first in European elections Sunday with 34.9%, a gain of almost 8 percentage points compared with 2014.