29-09-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com

Austria's right-wing 'whizz-kid' Sebastian Kurz

Vienna (AFP) - "Whizz-kid", "Basti Fantasti" and even "Messiah" -- these are just some of the accolades awarded to 33-year-old Sebastian Kurz, whose place at the top of Austrian politics was confirmed in snap elections on Sunday.Despite presiding over a period of unusual instability, the millennial leader of the centre-right People's Party (OeVP) maintained his supporter base winning 37 percent of the vote -- even if he has proved a polarising figure.The plan surely did not include having to pul
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