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Philip Oltermann in Berlin

UNBELIEVABLE: Austrian social democrats announce wrong leader after technical error | History Defined

Andreas Babler giving a press conference on Monday
Andreas Babler, who in fact won the race, said on Monday the mistake in the counting process had been ‘painful’ for all those involved. Photograph: Georg Hochmuth/APA/AFP/Getty Images

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 SPÖ 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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