Austria's word of the year. It means postponement of the repeat of the runoff of the presidential election in German.
Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung
huh?
Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung
what?
Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung
I'm going to try again...
Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung
The tongue-twister was born of the record time it took to elect Austria's president, and was announced following a poll of 10,000 people carried out by the Research Unit for Austrian German at the University of Graz, in cooperation with the Austrian Press Agency.
A first round in April was followed by a May runoff between the two most popular candidates. This was annulled because of irregularities. A new date set for October was then postponed because of faulty absentee ballots to Dec. 4, when the vote was won by Alexander Van der Bellen.
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