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Austria: New Chancellor Alexander Salenberg

The Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Salenberg he was sworn in today, Monday, two days after his resignation Sebastian Kurtz, who is being investigated for corruption, Chancellor.

Its new conservative leader Austria, 52 years old, was sworn in shortly after 14:00 Greek time before the president Alexander van der Belen, at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna.

Career

Salenberg comes from an old noble family and was born in Bern, Switzerland. Son of the diplomat Wolfgang Salenberg, Alexander grew up in India, Spain and Paris, where his father served as ambassador.

Salenberg studied legally and began his professional career in 1997 at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Vienna. From 2000 to 2005 he was Head of the Legal Department of the Permanent Representation of Austria to Brussels.

In 2006, he returned to Vienna and served as Press representative at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for many years.

In 2013, Sebastian Kurtz appointed Salenberg as foreign minister. strategic foreign policy planning.

Completely trusting Kurtz, Salenberg was appointed Foreign Minister in the second government of Sebastian Kurtz, in the fall of 2019.

The new chancellor, as foreign minister, held hard line for immigration. In fact, when the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos was destroyed by fire, Salenberg categorically rejected calls for the proportional distribution of refugees in EU member states. “The request for the distribution of refugees can not be a solution,” he said. typically Salenberg.

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