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KURZ SHORT Austria’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz forced to quit over corruption probe 4 years after becoming world’s youngest leader
The Sun UK ^ | 09 October 2021 | Niamh Cavanagh

Posted on 10/10/2021 2:01:21 AM PDT by blueplum

AUSTRIA'S chancellor has been forced to quit after he was named as a prime suspect in a corruption probe just four years after becoming the world's youngest leader.

Sebastian Kurz and nine of his associates have been accused of using public money to pay to manipulate polls and to secure friendly reports in the media...

...Kurz became the world's youngest leader when he was elected as chancellor at the age of 31 in 2017.

Nicknamed "wunderwuzzi" or “wonderkid" at the time, Kurz topped the poll with over 31.5 per cent of the vote....

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2017; austria; foreignrelations; kurz
I wonder how often the DNC does the same thing - buy polls, I mean?
1 posted on 10/10/2021 2:01:21 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Ironically, “kurz” means “short” in English.

CC


2 posted on 10/10/2021 2:54:14 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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This investigation goes off into various directions. The party (not Kurz himself) is accused of paying some polling group to ‘fudge’ the numbers. If you really dig into this....the various other parties all do the same trick.

But then the accusation goes to suggest that gov’t money was invested into this polling business in some way. Typically (at least in Europe)....it’s newspapers or TV news groups that pay for a great number of the polls. I doubt if this accusation can be proven.

The accusations also suggest reporters were paid some cash (by someone) to write favorable slants. In this case, no idiot is going to transfer cash around (this would have been a cash situation). Digging up this evidence will be next to impossible.

So all they achieve is getting Kurz to take a 2-year vacation, writing some books and returning by the time of the next election.

Just to end my observations over this....Austria is one of those countries where they erupt with a major scandal about every three years. The scandals tend to always end as a one-star minor event.


3 posted on 10/10/2021 3:20:20 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Dems are trying to bribe population with 5 trillions of printed money.


4 posted on 10/10/2021 6:01:28 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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They don’t have to, the presstitudes do it for free because they are bankrolling them. Otherwise, many of them would be unemployed, at least in the field of journalism. What I am saying is they are paying them, but not just for polls, as they are included as part of the payment for always siding with them and taking their causes as important must do policies.


5 posted on 10/10/2021 6:21:25 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Looks a lot like Gruesome...


6 posted on 10/10/2021 7:41:24 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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