Austria Gets Another Leader as Political Turmoil, Covid Rage

  • Interior Minister Nehammer nominated as chancellor Friday
  • New leader needs to end lockdown, enforce vaccine mandate
Karl NehammerPhotographer: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images
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Austria nominated its interior minister as the country’s third chancellor in as many months, enduring a change in power in the midst of a lockdown and with politics in turmoil.

Karl Nehammer, known for his hard line on immigration, was picked as chancellor and new chairman of the ruling People’s Party after a meeting of the conservative group’s leaders in Vienna on Friday.