VIENNA, July 1 (UPI) -- Austria will schedule another presidential election following Friday's annulment of the May vote, which was settled by less than 1 percentage point.
The country's Constitutional Court announced the May runoff vote, narrowly won by Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen over the right-wing Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer, was compromised by inconsistencies in the vote count in several constituencies. The Freedom Party said postal votes were improperly handled by counting prior to the election date, a requirement of Austrian law. Witnesses added they saw some election observers signing minutes of the vote count without reading them.