Tuesday, 10. September 2002
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Austrian Chancellor Ends Coalition over Haider
Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel severed his coalition with Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party Monday, calling elections after Haider ousted the vice chancellor in a bid to retake control of his party. Schuessel said his conservative People's Party could not maintain a stable government after Haider led a weekend revolt within the Freedom Party, forcing the resignation of party chief and Vice Chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer and Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser.
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