Austrian legislators elected in parliament Thursday to raise the resistance of previous Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, getting rid of the means for an examination right into corruption claims to continue.
Kurz surrendered last month as chancellor however continued to be an MP after an authorities raid on his workplace over complaints that he made use of public cash to approach pollsters as well as reporters. He has actually rejected the claims as well as wondered about the honesty of the district attorneys behind the examinations.
Kurz stays leader of his center-right Austrian Individuals’s Celebration along with head of the legislative team.
He claimed today, prior to Thursday’s ballot, that he was “pleased” his resistance would certainly be raised, “since that is the basis for a fast procedure.”
” What I understand is that I have not been criminally guilty of anything,” he included.