Parliamentary elections will take place in Austria on Sunday following the collapse of the coalition government in May.

A leaked video showing the head of the country's far-right Freedom Party (FPO), Heinz-Christian Strache, attempting to sell off state assets for party support, followed by a vote of no confidence in the leader of Austria's center-right People's Party (OVP), Sebastian Kurz, forced the country into snap elections.

The coalition partners had only been in power for 17 months.

Yet surprisingly neither event is likely to hurt either party leading into the elections, said Lore Hayek, a senior researcher on political communication and electoral analysis at the University of Innsbruck.

"The voters of the FPO are quite stable. They don't read classical newspapers. They don't consume TV news as much. They get a lot of their news coverage from social media, party news channels and so on. So they are not as affected by this scandal as you might think."

For months, polls have also shown continued support for 33-year-old ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

Austria's Western canton of Tyrol has traditionally been a stronghold of support for his conservative Austrian People's Party.

Eighty-nine-year-old resident of Innsbruck, Ingelborg Bernhardt, likes the young leader very much.

"Mr. Kurz – I hope that he continues in the way he did before. I will vote for him again without batting an eyelid. The others, they always argue, argue, argue," Bernhardt said. "That is not a government for me. Let's try it with the young ones."

Yet younger voters are not as convinced, says 26-year-old Innsbruck University student Florin Malcrater.

"I don't really like him. I think he is not an honest politician. He says a lot of populist things," said Malcrater.

"He appears a little insincere," 32-year-old Vienna resident Florian Brackmister said. "He knows exactly what to say to trigger a certain effect in the population, so I think you have to be very careful not to be manipulated."

The issues that drove voters to the polls two years ago have also changed, noted Professor Hayek.

"The migration crisis was the issue that was most prominent for voters in 2017. This time it's the climate crisis. That is pretty much the only issue that everybody is talking about," said professor Hayek.

This is likely to bring back Austria's Green Party to Parliament. They crashed out in the last elections, but are currently polling around 12 percent.

While Kurz's conservative Austrian People's Party carries 34 percent of the polls going into this weekend's election, it's still not enough to win a majority.

"Yeah there will definitely be a negotiation for a coalition," says Hayek, "I think the most probable coalition will be the continuation of the government with the right-wing party (FPO), although with all the scandals the right-wing party had over the last few months, there might be some opposition with the conservative party, so it will depend on who comes in second."

Nearly 6.4 million Austrians are eligible to vote on Sunday in what might just result in a continuation of their previous government.