Austrian vice chancellor Mitterlehner resigns from cabinet and party

Vienna (dpa) – Austrian Vice Chancellor and conservative leader Reinhold Mitterlehner announced his resignation from politics on Wednesday, citing mounting tensions within his People’s Party (OeVP) and with the Social Democrats, the OeVP’s coalition partner. “I think that’s enough,” he said at the OeVP’s party headquarters in Vienna, adding that his job had become “joyless and…