{"id":181417,"date":"2016-07-01T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/01\/oh-f\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T02:16:00","slug":"oh-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/01\/oh-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh F%$#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ruling by the ConstitutionalCourt of Austria means that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/01\/austrian-presidential-election-result-overturned-and-must-be-held-again-hofer-van-der-bellen\">Austrian presidential election result have been annulled, and a new election must be held<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last time, the candidate from the right wing Freedom Party came within a fraction of a percent of winning, so what happens in a post Brexit vote is a complete crap shoot: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Austria\u2019s Freedom party will get another go at providing the first far-right president in the European Union, after the country\u2019s constitutional court annulled the result of May\u2019s presidential election.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The court president, Gerhart Holzinger, announced on Friday that the run-off vote, in which Norbert Hofer of the Freedom party (FP\u00d6) narrowly lost to Green-backed Alexander Van der Bellen, would have to be repeated across the whole country after an investigation revealed irregularities in the count of the vote in several constituencies.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The unprecedented ruling comes a week before Van der Bellen was due to be sworn into office. Hofer had lost out to his rival in a knife-edge election on 22 May by only 30,863 votes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">While the Austrian presidency is a largely ceremonial role, the outcome has been seen as hugely symbolic, with the Freedom party seemingly buoyed by growing anti-refugee sentiment and disaffection with the country\u2019s political establishment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Austrian President has one significant power:  He can dissolve parliament and force new elections.<\/p>\n<p>The citizens of the EU are living in interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ruling by the ConstitutionalCourt of Austria means that Austrian presidential election result have been annulled, and a new election must be held. Last time, the candidate from the right wing Freedom Party came within a fraction of a percent of winning, so what happens in a post Brexit vote is a complete crap shoot: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,984,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-europe","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}