Austria will get a new chancellor, though the career diplomat stepping into Sebastian Kurz’s shoes is a close ally of the departing conservative leader who resigned over a corruption scandal.
The political maneuvering over the weekend -- with Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg slotted in quickly as successor -- raises the question of whether the Kurz era is really over or if the wily 35-year-old political survivor would keep pulling the strings as parliamentary leader of the still-dominant People’s Party.
