Austrian Deputy Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner will replace Chancellor Werner Faymann on an interim basis following the latter's resignation, a spokeswoman for the presidency told the Austria Press Agency Monday. 


Faymann was due to formally notify President Heinz Fischer of his resignation later Monday. Mitterlehner is from the center-right People's Party (OeVP), coalition partner to Faymann's Social Democrats (SPOe

Source: NNA