Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker was elected today as leader of the conservative Austrian People's Party (OVP).
Stocker was elected to this position at a conference held in Vienna, Hina reports.
Having received around 98 percent of the vote, the 65-year-old lawyer stressed that he was distancing himself from the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), which had the most votes in the parliamentary elections in the fall.
He said that the role model for FPO leader Herbert Kickl is current US President Donald Trump.
After failed negotiations between the FPO and the OVP, Stocker formed a government in early March with the Social Democratic Party SPO and the liberal NEOS.
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