Austria’s recent presidential election has been invalidated after its constitutional court upheld a challenge by the far-right Freedom Party.
Alexander van der Bellen, the Green Party candidate, beat Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party by just 31,000 votes in May’s election, out of a total of around 4,500,000 votes cast.
However, Mr Hofer challenged the result based on irregularities in the counting of postal votes.
An official investigation discovered that several authorities had begun counting postal votes prior to the election rather than after the polls had closed.
