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Some critics say Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz (pictured here on a visit to Moldova) has not so much reinvented the "New" People's Party - but stolen the clothes of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party.

Sebastian Kurz - Austria's young master of reinvention?

Less than two weeks before the elections for the Austrian parliament (Nationalrat, or National Council), a development first apparent in the spring of this year appears to be coming to fruition.

The conservative People's Party leads in all public opinion polls and can expect a plurality of votes and seats in the National Council.

Considering the party's recent decline, such an outcome would be a remarkable reversal of a nearly 40-year trend.

Since the 1980s, Austria's par...

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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.

Some critics say Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz (pictured here on a visit to Moldova) has not so much reinvented the "New" People's Party - but stolen the clothes of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party.

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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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