By J.C. | BERLIN
HE LEFT university six years ago. He became Austria’s foreign minister four years ago. Now Sebastian Kurz is on the verge of becoming the country’s chancellor, and at 31 the youngest leader of government in the world. Following today’s general election in the Alpine republic his centre-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) is on 31.7% in the latest projections, up 7.7 points. The Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), which currently leads a “grand coalition” of the two parties, is flat on 26.9% and the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) is up 5.5 points to 26.0%.
