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| Austria's conservatives strike deal with far-right party founded by ex-Nazis to form coalition government | |
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| Austria's far-right Freedom Party has reached a deal with the conservative People's Party on creating a new coalition government. | Austria's far-right Freedom Party has reached a deal with the conservative People's Party on creating a new coalition government. |
| The agreement will make 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz the new chancellor and Europe's youngest leader. | |
| Austria's People's Party finished first in the 15 October election. The party then embarked on coalition talks with the right-wing Freedom Party. | |
| Mr Kurz and Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache announced on Friday that they had finalised an agreement on a new coalition, which will shift Austria to the right. | |
| Mr Kurz is foreign minister in the outgoing government under Chancellor Christian Kern, a centre-left Social Democrat. His party has been the junior partner in that government. | |
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