Protests and Populist Cheers Greet Kurz as Austrian Chancellor
- Program seeks to avoid ‘making waves’ at home and abroad
- Protests outside Vienna’s Hofburg palace are subdued
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Sebastian Kurz became Austria’s 14th postwar chancellor amid public protests over his new government of conservatives and nationalists.
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen inaugurated Kurz after his People’s Party struck a deal with the nationalist Freedom Party on Friday. Demonstrators marched against the the Freedom Party’s participation in the government, albeit with a smaller turnout than in 2000, when the parties first teamed up in coalition.