Austrian Social Democrats announce wrong leader after ‘technical error’
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#6C2CA)
Party officials say Andreas Babler won race, not Hans Peter Doskozil as previously declared due to Excel error
Austria's Social Democratic party has admitted a technical error" in an Excel file led to it announcing the wrong candidate as its new leader.
Officials at the centre-left SPO said on Monday that Andreas Babler, the mayor of the south-eastern city of Traiskirchen, had in fact won the race, and not Hans Peter Doskozil, the governor of the south-eastern Burgenland region, who had been declared the winner on Saturday.
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