Recently there have been concerns in Austria about Sebastian Kurz, who is ill.
The Chancellor is now speaking and wants to withdraw in August - also because of Corona.
Munich / Vienna - The coronavirus pandemic * and its crisis management have cost a lot of energy.
Apparently this also applies to the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) *.
Recently there have been rumors about the 34-year-old head of government from Vienna.
Because: Kurz was sick.
However, there was no statement on what exactly the top politician of the Turquoise has.
Sebastian Kurz: Concerns about Austria Chancellor after illness
That happened: Kurz had a stressful schedule in the first half of July, traveling back and forth between the Bregenz Festival on Lake Constance and a government visit to the USA.
He apparently caught a cold, as the Austrian news portal
oe24.at
writes.
After a few days' break, Kurz took part in the Council of Summer Ministers in Reichenau Castle on the Rax, southwest of Vienna, before he fell ill again.
In the video: Austria - Investigations against Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
This Tuesday (August 3), the Austrian Chancellor spoke about his illness for the first time.
And, as a precaution, he cleared up the rumor that he might have Corona *.
"Thank you very much for the many well-being wishes that have reached me over the past few days.
It is nothing serious.
I had the summer flu and, above all, no voice (no Corona *) and I've been healthy again today, ”wrote the Viennese-born in a post on his Facebook account, among other things.
What does Sebastian Kurz have?
Austria Chancellor comments on illness
As
reported by
oe24.at
, the busy Kurz now wants to take a break until the ÖVP party conference on August 28th in St. Pölten. Accordingly, he will not always be in the federal capital Vienna, but also go hiking and take a vacation * with his pregnant girlfriend Susanne Thier on the Adriatic coast in Croatia *. Most recently, not only had the protracted corona pandemic * Kurz hit, but also massive criticism of the alleged friendship economy in the Viennese government circle in connection with the Ibiza affair about the resigned ex-Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian "HC" Strache.
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