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Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (centre), with the disgraced Hans-Christian Strache on the left (Photo: Dragan Tatic/BKA)

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Sunday's election in Austria: What to expect?

"Provide clarity. Vote for Kurz. Austria needs its chancellor." So proclaimed campaign posters portraying Sebastian Kurz in a statesmanlike posture, just days before Austria heads to the polls.

A snap election was called after the government of Kurz, Europe's youngest leader who had headed a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), was removed from power by an unprecedented no-confidence vote in the Austrian parliament in May.

Parliament lost confidence in the government...

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (centre), with the disgraced Hans-Christian Strache on the left (Photo: Dragan Tatic/BKA)

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

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