Austria's leader is demanding that his junior coalition partner distances itself from a poem that compared migrants with rats.
Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told the Austria Press Agency that the Freedom Party's branch in Upper Austria province should "immediately and unambiguously" distance itself from the poem that appeared in a party publication in Braunau.
Kurz said "the choice of words is abhorrent, inhuman and deeply racist, and has no place in Upper Austria or the whole country."
The poem, which was titled "The Town Rat" and warned against mixing cultures, also drew strong criticism from the center-left opposition.
Kurz struck a coalition deal with the Freedom Party and became chancellor in late 2017.
