Austrian far right gets second chance at presidency with vote re-run

By Francois Murphy and Kirsti Knolle VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's presidential election runoff must be held again, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday, handing the Freedom Party's narrowly defeated candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the European Union. Concerns about immigration and jobs featured prominently in that referendum, as they did in Austria's knife-edge election. Norbert Hofer of the anti-immigration and anti-EU Freedom Party (FPO) lost the May 22 vote to former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen by less than one percentage point, or around 31,000 votes, in the race for what is largely a ceremonial position.