Austria’s new Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on Monday announced that he would closely cooperate with ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who resigned amid a corruption probe.
“It goes without saying that I will be working closely with Sebastian Kurz, the chairman of the new Austrian People’s Party, the largest party in the parliament.
“This will be very close cooperation. Anything else will be absurd in terms of democratic policies,’’ Schallenberg said in his first statement after taking office.
He also said he considered being suspicions against ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who resigned amid a corruption probe, to be false
“In addition, I consider the suspicions put forward (against Kurz) to be false, and I am convinced that in the end, it will turn out that they were based on nothing,’’ Schallenberg said.
