VIENNA, May 26 (WNM staff) - Late Sunday night, the Austrian Social Democrat's executive committee unanimously voted in favour of a recommendation to the SPÖ Parliamentary Club to deliver a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) and the entire federal government. This was announced by party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner after several hours of deliberations.

She explained to journalists that the past ten days had not seen any confidence-building measures taken. He had provided for a "sole ÖVP government", without having previously agreed with the other factions.

The Social Democrats will join the FPÖ in voting against Kurz. As they together have the majority in the Austrian parliament, Kurz will be forced out of office on Monday. His center right coalition collapsed after a staged video was published which showed the FPÖ top politician Heinz Christian Strache negotiating deals with a woman who posed to be the niece of a Russian oligarch. Strache's ÖVP has a partnership agreement with Vladimir Putin's One Russia party.