Hofer lost due to vote fraud.
The election was annulled and will be held again.
Ensuring integrity of the electoral process was the impetus behind the Federal Constitutional Court’s decision today to set aside the result.
I don’t really understand why the fraudulent ballots weren’t just tossed out and the election won by the real winner, the candidate from FPÖ. But this is better than nothing.
had been considered the most likely FPÖ candidate. On 28 December 2015 he said that he considered himself too young for the office and that he would prefer his party to pick someone else as its candidate.[