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Austria political crisis, Austria Presidential Election 2016 schedule/dates/timeline Opinion poll facts,Brief about Austria political crisis, Werner Faymann, Reinhold Mitterlehner,Austria Latest news updates
The political crisis in Austria has been further worsened with the resigning of Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann. Mr. Faymann was under pressure owing to the loss his party faced in recently held presidential elections last month.
Mr. Faymann, who came to the power in 2008, has resigned as both – Austrian Chancellor and party president of Social Democrat Party (SPÖ). For now Vice Chancellor, Reinhold Mitterlehner, has been appointed as acting chancellor.
Austrian general elections will be held on 2018.
Chancellor Faymann was also under pressure because of the policy his government had adopted towards migrant crisis in Europe. Austria has long been facing the migrant crisis. Faymann, inititally, supported the “open-door” refugee policy of Germany. But as some 90,000 asylum-seekers arrived in Austria and public support for the policy crumbled, Faymann took a U-turn on the policy.