It is impossible to see clearly how the first chapter of the left-wing primaries actually unfolded. According to the current situation, Gergely Karácsony collected the most recommendations, Klára Dobrev took second place, and Péter Jakab took third place.
This is interesting if only because the candidate for Prime Minister of the DK - according to his own admission - collected much more signatures than the mayor much earlier. Dobrev also announced at the time of our closing that "I collected the most recommendations from the top of the tower".
György Magyar, the chairman of the Civil Election Commission, said when asked: notaries are not used to check the signatures, their authenticity is only checked randomly. Based on his words, until early yesterday evening, Karácsony was not even officially a candidate for Prime Minister. We quote from the Magyar Nemzet article.
It stinks - one can rightly say about the left-wing primary election, whose recommendation gathering phase ended yesterday. In this, the prime ministerial candidates had to collect 20,000 valid recommendations, and the individual candidates had to collect 400 valid recommendations in order to actually start the test, and the aspirants had two weeks to do so.
This is all that can be known for sure, but from then on, the process is surrounded by complete darkness. The National Primary Election Committee (OEVB), which tallies and "authenticates" the recommendations - not to be confused with the National Election Committee - did not provide any official information on who submitted how many recommendations. Instead, Gergely Karácsony did it.
The mayor announced on his Facebook page that "the National Primary Election Committee checked and tallied the recommendations submitted by the candidates so far. Thanks to your kindness, we were able to hand over 41,500 signatures to the Commission". According to Karácsony, Klára Dobrev submitted 34,244 recommendations, Péter Jakab 31,803, Péter Márki-Zay 33,565 recommendations, while András Fekete-Győr submitted no more, no less, but precisely 25 thousand.
The result is rather strange in light of the announcements of the past two weeks. Known: Karácsony was the first to announce the day before the collection that he had collected 20,000 signs, but until yesterday he did not say how much he had collected.
Karácsony did not report that he had submitted his recommendations to the OEVB.
Klára Dobrev announced a day later that she had the 20,000 signatures, and a few days later she also announced that she had already submitted more than 60,000 recommendations to the OEVB for verification. The DK Prime Minister candidate continued to collect even after this, so he reported over the weekend that he already has more than 81,000.
Dobrev either lied about her recommendations, or for some reason only gave a fraction of them.
the full article here.
