[arista]

Austria
got Lucky


http://news.sky.com/story/1700922/fa...lection-defeat


Ref CNN Live

[Livia]

I could have sworn the title said "Arista: The Green Leader...."

[MTVN]

A court has now overturned the vote and the election will be reran, presumably because the right wing Freedom Party were right that postal votes were mishandled. Could we getting our first far-right EU leader after all

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Livia

I could have sworn the title said "Arista: The Green Leader...."

poor dyslexic Liv.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by MTVN

A court has now overturned the vote and the election will be reran, presumably because the right wing Freedom Party were right that postal votes were mishandled. Could we getting our first far-right EU leader after all

I think you may be right Matt, and I don't think it will be the last unfortunately.

[arista]

Originally Posted by MTVN

A court has now overturned the vote and the election will be reran, presumably because the right wing Freedom Party were right that postal votes were mishandled. Could we getting our first far-right EU leader after all

Do you have time to post a link , please

[MTVN]

Austria's highest court has annulled the result of the presidential election narrowly lost by the candidate of the far-right Freedom Party.

The party had challenged the result, saying that postal votes had been illegally and improperly handled.

The Freedom Party candidate, Norbert Hofer, lost the election to the former leader of the Greens, Alexander Van der Bellen, by just 30,863 votes or less than one percentage point.
The election will now be re-run.

Announcing the decision, Gerhard Holzinger, head of the Constitutional Court, said: "The challenge brought by Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache against the 22 May election... has been upheld."

In two weeks of hearings, lawyers for the Freedom Party argued that postal ballots were illegally handled in 94 out of 117 districts.

It alleged that thousands of votes were opened earlier than permitted under election rules and some were counted by people unauthorised to do so.

The party also claimed to have evidence that some under-16s and foreigners had been allowed to vote.

In its ruling, the court said election rules had been broken in a way that could have influenced the result.

But it said there was no proof the count had been manipulated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36681475

[arista]

Yes it was on His Computer
on BBC2HD 27 mins Daily Politics
Andrew Neil.

Of Course it was on France24 Live First

But I was not able to update this thread
so thank you MTVN.