31-year-stale on track to become chancellor,but critics say to get there he has embraced divisive agenda set by populist rightBy handing a convincing victory to the centre-moral party of 31-year-stale Sebastian Kurz on Sunday, Austria rewarded one of the most audacious political gambles in its recent history.
Until Kurz was announced as a candidate for chancellor in June, and his Austrian People’s party (ÖVP) had been trailing by some distance in polls behind its senior partner in the governing coalition,the centre-left SPÖ, and behind the far-moral Freedom party (FPÖ).
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Source: guardian.co.uk