Austria presidential poll result overturned.

Posted by Kumiko Oumae on Friday, 01 July 2016 21:04.

Here’s an interesting development:

BBC News, ‘Austria presidential poll result overturned’, 01 Jul 2016 (emphasis added):

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.”

He added: “The decision I am announcing today has no winner and no loser, it has only one aim: to strengthen trust in the rule of law and democracy.”

Austria’s politics have been thrown into confusion. One of the most controversial and polarising presidential elections in recent history will have to be re-run.

This is a moral victory for the far-right, anti-immigrant and Eurosceptic Freedom Party, which launched the legal challenge last month after alleging “terrifying” irregularities.

The Freedom Party is hoping that the decision by the court will help its candidate Norbert Hofer win in the new election this autumn.

Hanging over the vote is the shadow of “Brexit” - the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

Will Mr Hofer choose to make Austria’s future membership of the EU a campaign issue?

Some Austrians think the vote by the United Kingdom to leave the EU could boost populist and nationalist sentiment in Austria. Others believe the political turbulence in Britain may make people more cautious about Eurosceptic parties.

Mr Hofer said on Friday he was pleased that the court had taken “a difficult decision”, adding: “I have great trust in the rule of law.”

Mr Van der Bellen said he was “very confident” he would emerge the winner.

“Austria needs to be well represented in Europe and the world. If we can do it once, we can do it again,” he told reporters.

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said the court ruling showed that the country’s democracy was strong and he called for “a short campaign, a campaign without emotions”.

‘Rules broken’

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.

If elected, Mr Hofer would become the first far-right head of state of an EU country.

His party has based its election campaigns around concern over immigration and falling living standards for the less well-off.

After Britain voted to leave the EU, Mr Hofer said he favoured holding a similar referendum in Austria if the bloc failed to stop centralisation and carry out reforms “within a year”.

Last Sunday, he told the Oesterreich newspaper (in German): “If [the EU] evolves in the wrong direction, then in my opinion the time has come to ask the Austrians if they still want to be part of it.”

His opponent, Mr Van der Bellen, is strongly pro-EU and has spoken of his dream for a border-free “United States of Europe”.

The two men went forward to a run-off when, for the first time since World War Two, both the main centrist parties were knocked out in the first round of voting.

Following the court’s order to re-run the vote, President Heinz Fischer will be replaced on a temporary basis by three parliamentary officials, including Mr Hofer.

The new election is expected to be held in September or October.

What powers does the Austrian president have?

It is a mostly ceremonial post. But the president does have the power to dissolve the National Council - the more powerful lower house of parliament. That triggers a general election.

The president can only do that once for a particular reason - he cannot use the same grounds to dissolve it again.

It is the chancellor’s job to appoint government ministers. And the chancellor has the power to dismiss the government. But ministers have to be formally sworn in by the president.

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Posted by 14 of 20 districts, 77,926 votes affected on Sat, 02 Jul 2016 06:58 | #

In 14 of 20 surveyed districts, the principle of the secret ballot was violated, the court ruled, noting that the ballot papers were opened in the absence of legal representatives.

Some 77,926 votes were affected by this illegality, which makes manipulation possible, the court ruled.

The communist-Green Alexander Van der Bellen defeated the Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer by only 30,863 votes—after winning an abnormally high number of postal votes.

Posted by D-Day for Austria & Hungary: October 2 on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:33 | #

TNO, “October 2 is Decision Time for Austria, Hungary”, 5 July 2016:

Austria and Hungary will face momentous electoral questions in October 2016: the former will hold a new presidential election campaign on October 2, while Hungary will hold a referendum on the European Union’s forced invader “redistribution program” on the same day.

In Vienna, the Austrian government has announced that the presidential election rerun—ordered by that country’s Constitutional Court—will take place on October 2.

“Today we had to take a decision on holding the presidential election on October 2. As you can imagine, it was a relatively easy decision to take,” Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern told reporters after a cabinet meeting.

The country’s constitutional court decided last week that the run-off presidential election originally held in May will have to be held again after finding widespread procedural irregularities.

The court, which questioned more than 60 witnesses in a four-day hearing, upheld the challenge brought by the Freedom Party (FPÖ) against its candidate Norbert Hofer’s narrow defeat in May’s election.

The election was won by the communist-Green Alexander van der Bellen by a margin of 0.6 percent—after highly suspect “postal ballots” were counted.

[...]

In Hungary, that country’s president János Áder has called for the government-initiated referendum on the “mandatory resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens” to take place on the same day.

The referendum is the result of the European Union’s unilateral decision to force each EU member state to accept thousands of bogus asylum seekers invited into Germany by Angela Merkel under a plan to “spread the load” of the invasion.

Called a “mandatory migrant quota system,” the plan is to “allocate” the nonwhite invaders to each EU state according to its Gross Domestic Product and population size, so as to avoid Germany having to carry the entire burden.

Not surprisingly, those EU nations with an ounce of backbone—such as Hungary—have refused to partake in this plan, and the Viktor Orban-led government asked parliament earlier this year to call out a referendum on the matter.

The proposal passed in the Hungarian parliament with the support of the governing conservative Fidesz-KDNP alliance and the opposition nationalist Jobbik party by a margin of 136 to 5.

The referendum question being put to the Hungarian people will read as follows:

“Do you want the European Union to require the compulsory resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens to Hungary without authorization by the Hungarian Parliament?”

Posted by Molyneux: Austrians must vote Hofer on Thu, 01 Dec 2016 03:47 | #

Regarding Austrian election, Stefan Molyneux argues that Austrians don’t have right to give away their nation: must vote Hofer.

Stefan Molyneux, “Freedom-Aid Radio”, 30 Nov 2016: On December 4th, 2016, Austrians return to the ballot after earlier election results were overturned. The majority of Austrians want closed borders and to escape European Union domination of migrant policies. Stefan Molyneux discusses the most important - and unreported - facts that everybody in Austria needs to know to make a wise choice between Alexander Van der Bellen and Norbert Hofer on December 4th, 2016.

Posted by Cato's speech on Austrian politics on Mon, 17 Dec 2018 05:17 | #

Millenniyule 2018: Cato’s Speech: Discussing Austrian politics from a right-wing perspective on 16 Dec 2018

Of course Millennial Woes is too much of an idiot* to realize that the enemies of ethnonationalism want Whites to portray their enemies as “Lefties” and “Liberals” one and the same (no matter that it’s an oxymoron).

* And too willing to go along with the ((((received definitions))) in order to have his (misleading) soap box.

The lies will try to live but they’re not White, they’re Jewish

...now what would Vivian Veritas approve of?

“Dissident Right’ sounds cool”