Tuesday, 10. September 2002

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Party split collapses government in Austria

Austria's chancellor on Monday called for new elections to end a political crisis after four key leaders of the Freedom Party resigned, saying a conflict with far-rightist Joerg Haider had made the party's work impossible. The crisis was triggered by a split in the Freedom Party, which makes up the ruling coalition along with the center-right People's Party, into two hostile camps: one in support of Vice Chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer and the other in support of Haider, its previous leader.

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