Austria’s Interior Minister Proposes Oct. 2 for New Election
![Austria's Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka announces the official result of Austrian presidential election in Vienna, Austria, Monday. (Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader)](https://images.hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/05/AUSTRIA-ELECTION-1.jpg)
Austria’s interior minister on Tuesday said he would propose Oct. 2 for a re-run of the run-off presidential election.
Wolfgang Sobotka told reporters shortly before a government meeting that he would submit the proposal to the government, and “the Council of Ministers will agree, I hope.”
Austria’s highest court ordered the re-run on Friday after four days of questioning more than 60 witnesses revealed widespread irregularities in the counting of the postal ballots.
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