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In case you don't speak German, Austria's rightist/populist government is falling apart after party chief and deputy PM #Strache promised a fake oligarch contracts in exchange for campaign € and buying the no.1 newspaper
Strache and his parliamentary leader Johann Gudenus have resigned; the pro-Russian interior minister may have been sacked
Almost equally repellent PM Kurz has been cloistered in his office all day surrounded by protestors and nobody knows what he's going to do
A TV broadcast is booked for 1900 local time. #populistpopcorn
You know that James Bond trope where the villain finally has 007 in his power and decides to explain the world domination plan in detail? Strache pretty much did that
He explained exactly how his party accepts illegal donations. There is apparently 7 hours of video so God knows how far he went with that
Strache's apology is also quite something. He blames it on the vodka and Red Bull, plus trying to impress the cute Russian chick
This is actually very much his personal brand
As part of his Bond villain speech, he mentioned the existence of several other wealthy backers. A key question is whether he said enough to finger them personally
The speech has been put back another 45 mins to 1945 local (2145 here) but more importantly green President Van Der Bellen will speak immediately afterwards...
As if he was going to dissolve parliament and call a general election or something. This supports a wire report saying the FPO would rather walk out than lose the interior ministry
sueddeutsche.de/politik/strach… > it looks like he did in fact name names and they include Herr Glock, as in Glock pistols
