{"id":62305,"date":"2019-05-28T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62305"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:24:30","slug":"austrian-chancellor-sebastian-kurz-ousted-in-no-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/austrian-chancellor-sebastian-kurz-ousted-in-no-confidence-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ousted in no-confidence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>His previous coalition ally, the far-right Freedom Party and the opposition Social Democrats  backed the no-confidence motions. The FPo had become embroiled in a political scandal caused by a secret video, which ended the coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opposition parties brought forward the two no-confidence votes one against Kurz and the other against his government.  Austria&#8217;s President Alexander Van der Bellen named Vice Chancellor Hartwig Loger as the interim leader. Loger will serve until a new transitional government can be appointed ahead of elections expected in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President will formally remove the government from office this morning. Kurz, head of the conservative Austrian People&#8217;s Party, is the first Chancellor in post-war Austrian history to lose a confidence vote. He was the world&#8217;s youngest state leader when elected in 2017, at 31. Kurz&#8217;s surprise strong showing in recent European Union elections  with a projected 35% of the vote was not enough to save him.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His previous coalition ally, the far-right Freedom Party and the opposition Social Democrats backed the no-confidence motions. The FPo had become embroiled in a political scandal caused by a secret video, which ended the coalition. Opposition parties brought forward the two no-confidence votes one against Kurz and the other against his government. Austria&#8217;s President Alexander [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62307,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62305\/revisions\/62307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}