Austrian Far-Right FPO Party Challenges Election Results
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) has challenged the results of last month’s presidential elections, the constitutional court said via Twitter on Wednesday, in a move that could tip the country into a constitutional crisis.
Postal ballots pushed former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen past the Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer in the knife-edge runoff election, in which the margin of victory was less than 1 percentage point, or roughly 31,000 votes.
An FPO spokesman did not give details.
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