Surprising ruling for Austrian Presidential vote rerun gives far-right new shot at taking control

Vienna (dpa) – Austria’s presidential election will have to be repeated because ballots and voting results were handled improperly, the Constitutional Court ruled Friday, in a historic decision that hands a second chance to far-right candidate Norbert Hofer. The court ruled in favour of Hofer’s Freedom Party, which had demanded a rerun of the May run-off…