In the first four episodes of our podcast “Inside Austria” we reconstructed how Sebastian Kurz became Federal Chancellor in Austria with allegedly unfair means.
How this story continues and how Kurz slides deeper and deeper into the corruption affair together with the legal interpreters of the FPÖ, we will tell in the coming episodes.
This time we jump into the present for an intermediate result.
A lot has happened since Sebastian Kurz's withdrawal from the Chancellery.
We talk to Fabian Schmid from STANDARD about how the turquoise system is currently fighting for survival, why Kurz's closest friends could now become enemies and whether Kurz is now at the end of his career - or is already working on his comeback.
In the “Inside Austria” podcast, SPIEGEL and “Standard” jointly examine the network that made Sebastian Kurz great.
This episode is about the risk Kurz and his confidants take in order to smooth his way into the Chancellery.
How he leads an American-style election campaign.
And why the ÖVP man is approaching the right-wing populists around Heinz-Christian Strache and initiating a momentous pact with them.
What is happening in Austria right now is a state affair: searches of the Austrian Chancellery, the federal headquarters of the ÖVP Chancellor Party, the Ministry of Finance and one of the country's most important publishing houses.
There has not been a comparable blow against the executive in Austria since the end of the Second World War.
The investigation is not only against Sebastian Kurz, but also against nine other accused, among other things because of suspicion of infidelity and aiding and abetting bribery.
In our podcast, we trace how it got to this point.
You can also find an overview of all current developments and new revelations in the Kurz affair in our new weekly newsletter “Inside Austria”.