Austria: After the scandal, Chancellor announces early elections

The ruling coalition has exploded a few days of Europeans after the broadcast of a video implicating the vice-chancellor of the extreme right, Heinz-Christian Strache, in connection with Russia.
The governing coalition in power in Austria has imploded, swept away by the scandal affecting the far-right party FPÖ. Saturday, in Vienna, the young Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, leader of the conservative party, announced the upcoming convening of early parliamentary elections.
"I proposed to the President of the Republic that new elections be organized, and that as soon as possible," said the 32-year-old prime minister in a ten-minute speech. A few hours earlier, his ally Heinz-Christian Strache, vice-chancellor and head of the FPÖ, resigned after being implicated in an attempt to collude in connection with Russia........