( Clean the augean stables! No (((dual citizenships))) CDH) Many police, few protesters as far right enters Austrian government

ReutersDecember 18, 2017
By Francois Murphy and Kirsti Knolle

VIENNA (Reuters) - Hundreds of police sealed off part of central Vienna on Monday as Austria became the only western European country with a far-right party in power, but protests against the swearing-in proved small and largely peaceful.

Conservative Sebastian Kurz, who is just 31, became chancellor in a coalition with the far right two months after winning a parliamentary election with a hard line on immigration after Austria was swept up in Europe's refugee crisis in 2015.

The last time the anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO) entered government in Austria, demonstrations were so big that the cabinet took a tunnel from the chancellery to the swearing-in ceremony at the president's office across the street.

There was no need for that this time as, almost 18 years on and to a significantly more muted reaction, the country once again became an exception among its peers,  https://www.yahoo.com/news/protests-muted-time-austrian-far-joins-government-091203222.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/protests-muted-time-austrian-far-joins-government-091203222.html