Doing a Macron: can Austrian minister copy French election success?

Foreign minister Sebastian Kurz wants to replicate French president's independent platform in hope for high office The French president's feat of sweeping into high office after abandoning a traditional party and running on an independent platform is inspiring copycats elsewhere on the continent. Austria's 30-year-old foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz, announced on Sunday that he would scrap the constituency selection process for his Austrian People's party (-VP), which he chairs, and replace it ...