Austria’s Vice Chancellor Andreas Babler to quit post and party leadership next year

  • Andreas Babler will leave Austria’s vice chancellorship and Social Democrat leadership early next year.
  • Markus Marterbauer will replace Babler as vice chancellor while undergoing cancer treatment.
  • Social Democrats are the second party in Austria’s three-way government.

Austrian Vice Chancellor Andreas Babler said he will leave the post early next year and step down as leader of the ruling Social Democrats. The party’s leadership agreed that Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, will replace Babler as vice chancellor. The Social Democrats are the second party in Austria’s three-way government.

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