Austria’s lower house voted on Wednesday in favour of lifting the parliamentary immunity of the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), Herbert Kickl, to let prosecutors investigate an allegation of perjury as prosecutors requested.
The move paves the way for the Central Prosecutors’ Office for Economic Crimes and Corruption (WKStA) to open an investigation relating to a complaint filed in July by a then-lawmaker from the conservative People’s Party
