Austria has postponed her presidential election which was planned to hold on October 2, 2016. This is the country’s second attempt this year to elect Austria’s President and Wolfgang Sobotka (Austrian Interior Minister) said in a statement recently that the postponement was as a result of the envelopes of absentee ballots that could not be sealed because of faulty adhesive strips. The office of the Austrian president supposed to be filled in July after Alexander Van der Bellen (the left-leaning presidential candidate) won Norbert Hofer of the right-wing Freedom Party but the Freedom Party claimed major irregularities which made the country’s highest court to order for a rerun. The next presidential vote has been shifted to December 4, 2016 according to center-left government coalition. This new development means that Austria will be without a head of state for at least the next two months.
Source: Viewers Corner News.