Austria’s far-right Freedom Party demands presidential vote rerun

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Austria’s far-right Freedom Party demands presidential vote rerun



"You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to get, at the very least, a particularly bad gut feeling"

VIENNA: -- Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) is challenging the result of last month’s presidential election.

The FPO is claiming numerous irregularities, particularly for the postal vote count.

Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache told reporters the party is taking its case to court, demanding a re-run of the election.

“You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to get at the very least a particularly bad gut feeling in the face of such mishaps or strange developments,” Strache said.

The run-off vote was tight: the margin of victory was less than one percentage point, or 31,000 votes.

Postal ballots pushed former Green party leader Alexander Van der Bellen past the FPO’s Norbert Hofer.

Various irregularities have come to light, mostly involving the early counting and processing of postal ballots, but the interior ministry has said the number of votes involved was smaller than the margin of victory.

What happens next?

Austria’s Constitutional Court now needs to determine whether the law has been broken and, if so, whether it might have affected the election outcome.

It aims to reach a verdict before July 8, the day Van der Bellen is due to take office.

The post of president is largely ceremonial in Austria, but Hofer would have been the first far-right head of state in the European Union.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-06-09

[jaidam]

Shocking the blatant vote rigging in this election, the postal count was a complete mess and statistically extremely unlikely to be true. What is worth mentioning here is that Europes course has already been decided, no matter what the voters decide or want makes no difference whatsoever. I offer proof of that, by David Camerons step father saying that no matter what happens in the Brexit vote Britain will remain in the EU. I'm outraged at the lefty shennanigans. In another 4 years they will have imported so many Africans that there will not even be an honest voter pool - just people voting for the socialist nutcases.

[user82374298374]

"I've seen a lot of elections, Gaius. Most honest, a few fixed. And you can always tell the fixed ones because they don't make sense. And this doesn't make sense."

-- Tom Zarek

[ALFREDO]

Count again, would be good!

If they counted the Florida votes for Bush jun. first Election

a little better and longer, we would most likely, not have with Al Gore all the Muslim - Iraq and now ISIS ect problems.

[arjunadawn]

Shocking the blatant vote rigging in this election, the postal count was a complete mess and statistically extremely unlikely to be true. What is worth mentioning here is that Europes course has already been decided, no matter what the voters decide or want makes no difference whatsoever. I offer proof of that, by David Camerons step father saying that no matter what happens in the Brexit vote Britain will remain in the EU. I'm outraged at the lefty shennanigans. In another 4 years they will have imported so many Africans that there will not even be an honest voter pool - just people voting for the socialist nutcases.

That's the plan!

From the statements of EU stewards to the vomitus coming from UK MPs it's apparent that democratic processes are increasingly fantasy.

[simple1]

Shocking the blatant vote rigging in this election, the postal count was a complete mess and statistically extremely unlikely to be true. What is worth mentioning here is that Europes course has already been decided, no matter what the voters decide or want makes no difference whatsoever. I offer proof of that, by David Camerons step father saying that no matter what happens in the Brexit vote Britain will remain in the EU. I'm outraged at the lefty shennanigans. In another 4 years they will have imported so many Africans that there will not even be an honest voter pool - just people voting for the socialist nutcases.

The Far Right leader stated “There are no signs of electoral fraud.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/24/austria-far-right-freedom-party-cries-foul-presidential-election-defeat

You and some others need to understand the UK referendum is only advisory. Below is what Cameron's father-in-law is reported to have said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3629775/Brexit-won-t-happen-vote-leave-EU-referendum-says-David-Cameron-s-father-law.html#ixzz4B8YVCqB9

Edited June 10, 2016 by simple1