Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer was elected the new leader of his troubled conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) on Saturday, receiving the backing of all delegates present at an extraordinary party conference. Opinion polls show the Austrian public’s approval for the party in the basement following a string of corruption allegations against top members. Nehammer had to reshuffle his Cabinet this week following the resignation of two ministers who had been given their posts by disgraced former chancellor Sebastian Kurz. Kurz, who was extraordinarily popular upon taking office in 2017, w…