2017 Austrian legislative election
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<entity_3> were held in <entity_5> on <entity_4> to elect the 26th National Council, the lower house of <entity_5>'s bicameral parliament. The snap election was called when the coalition government between the <entity_0> (<entity_0>) and <entity_2> (<entity_2>) was dissolved in May by the latter party's new leader Sebastian Kurz. The <entity_0> finished second with 52 seats, just ahead of the <entity_1> (FPÖ), which received 51 seats. On 30 September, <entity_0> general secretary and campaign manager Georg Niedermühlbichler resigned, following revelations of an internal <entity_0> "dirt campaign" directed against <entity_2>-leader Sebastian Kurz. In the days following the revelations and a blame-game about the origins and responsibility in the affair, the <entity_2> decided to sue the <entity_0> and vice versa. On 6 October, PR adviser and former Silberstein associate Peter Puller claimed to have been offered €100,000 by the <entity_2> in exchange for internal information on the <entity_0> election campaign, citing a meeting between himself and a Kurz campaign official.
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