Photo Gallery The Path to Power
Thirty-one-year-old Austrian chancellor candidate Sebastian Kurz: "I say what I think."
Sebastian Kurz during an election campaign event for his ÖVP party in Vienna. Kurz's positions during the refugee crisis in Europe helped to fuel the meteoric rise of the foreign minister's political career.
Kurz together with French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 18. Describing his first appearance in 2014 at the United Nations, the news agency Reuters wrote that Austrian had "done something rarely seen during the annual meeting of world leaders."
Since July, Sebastian Kurz has managed to catapult his party to first place in the polls. Many believe he is likely to be elected as Austria's next chancellor after Sunday's election.
