MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE CHARLES HABSBURG AGAIN: Austrian election re-run comes unstuck in postal ballot setback.

The country’s constitutional court scrapped the result of the first election in May due to irregularities in counting postal ballots.

Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said the re-run, scheduled for Oct. 2, had also been postponed.

“The reason is a defective envelope,” he said, suggesting a return to ballot forms used in previous elections after some postal voters complained the glue on their papers was not working properly.

Asked at a news conference if the double setback might damage Austria’s reputation, Sobotka said: “The laugh is always on the loser.”

The postponement refocuses attention on an election that had already set alarm bells ringing among Austria’s European Union peers.

In May, Norbert Hofer of the anti-migrant Freedom Party (FPO) came within 31,000 votes of a far-right victory that would have resonated widely on a continent where mass migration driven by war and poverty threatens to polarize political debate.

In a twist on the classic E.U. tradition, Austria continue postponing the vote until they’re assured of the desired result in which the scary “far-right” doesn’t win.