VIENNA (Sputnik) – On July 1, Austria's Constitutional Court said that the last presidential elections, held on May 22, would need to be repeated on October 2.
"We should use the example of Benelux countries. Benelux is not that big but its influence on the European Union decision making is significant. Therefore, we need a union within a union where Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic and Hungary would cooperate," Hofer told journalists while presenting his presidential platform.
He added that the government would stay intact until 2018 with a coalition of the Austrian People's Party and the Social Democratic Party of Austria in charge but did not exclude a trilateral coalition with the Green Party.
According to the Monday's poll by the Austrian Profil magazine, 67 percent of respondents believe in Hofer's victory in the upcoming elections with 24 percent seeing his chances as poor.
