‘Neither saint nor criminal’: Austria’s former chancellor Kurz quits politics

Sebastian Kurz dominated domestic politics for five years before being placed under corruption investigation

Austria’s former chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who has dominated his centre-right People’s party (ÖVP) and his country’s political life for the past five years, has unexpectedly announced he is leaving politics.

Slick, suave and long seen as a political wunderkind, Kurz became one of the world’s youngest democratically elected heads of government at 31 in 2017, but resigned as chancellor in October after being placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption.

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