Austria far-right party head resigns after infighting

Norbert Hofer has a mild-mannered public image and was seen as representing a more moderate wing within the anti-migration FPOe, which has been known to use Islamophobic rhetoric and imagery. VIENNA: Norbert Hofer, the leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party , announced his resignation on Tuesday after weeks of infighting and tension with party colleague and former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl.

Hofer had for months been at loggerheads with Kickl, the party's longterm ideologue who has been behind some of the FPOe's most trenchant campaigns. When the tabloid Oesterreich asked Hofer Tuesday if his resignation was also partially in response to differences of opinion with Kickl, he replied:"Yes, of course. I won't be told every day that I am out of place."The two politicians had differing approaches to the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2016 Hofer narrowly failed in his bid to become the first far-right president of an EU member state, losing to Alexander Van der Bellen by some 31,000 votes.

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