The Austrian Social Democratic Party caused consternation on Monday, June 5 by announcing, two days after the election of its new leader, that it had switched the results of the two candidates. Andreas Babler, 50 years old, who finds himself against all odds at the head of the party.
This is not the first election scandal in the Alpine country of nine million people. In 2016, irregularities during the counting of the presidential election prompted the Constitutional Court to invalidate the result of the second round and the Austrians had to go back to the polling booth.