Interim municipal elections will be held in sixty municipalities across the country on Sunday. The reason for the dumping is that previously elections could not be held due to the epidemic situation, and several local politicians became members of parliament on April 3. On June 26, local government representatives will be elected in six cities with county rights and in four districts of Budapest. Magyar Nemzet employee Márk Kreft-Horváth prepared a pre-election compilation.
In Keszthely, the local member of parliament, Jenő Manninger , will be the new city manager, after there was no challenger. The local left talked about the pointlessness of challenging the routine Fidesz politician, whose predecessor, Bálint Nagy , won the individual district in Keszthely on April 3rd with a result close to sixty percent, and in the future he will work as the state secretary of János Lázár
For a while, it seemed that the Fidesz candidate would remain unchallenged in municipal constituency No. 8 in Keszthely, but in the end there was an opposing candidate with the support of the DK, so the representative election has not yet fully run. There is no trace of the other left-wing parties in the city.
The opposition parties were completely absorbed in Békéscsaba as well. Péter Szarvas was re-elected in 2019 with 79 percent of the votes, who ran in the colors of his own association, supported by Fidesz and previously by the local Jobbik. Seven people entered the representative body in the colors of the mayor's association, and also seven with Fidesz-KDNP nominations. The left-wing parties are represented by a representative from the compensation list who entered in the colors of DK–Jobbik–Párbeszéd and two politicians who entered in the colors of MSZP–LMP. This Sunday, there will be an election in individual electoral district No. 4, as the former Fidesz representative has passed away. Only the mayor's local association and the Fidesz-KDNP nominated a candidate, the left-wing parties are not even trying.
The balance of power can be balanced in Szolnok, as in the city on the banks of the Tisza, the Ferenc Szalay (Fidesz–KDNP) was re-elected in 2019, but in the representative body the united left gained a majority in the ratio of 10-8. The current by-election is being held due to the resignation of a DK representative, the mayor of Fidesz Gyula Menkó , the candidate of a local NGO. The candidate of the left-wing parties is Károly Kovács , who is now supported by only four left-wing parties from the previous alliance.
Fidesz Botka can win again in the city of László . of Béla Mihálffy of the KDNP , a newly elected member of parliament. Gábor Zoltán Komjáti from Jobbik, who used to support Hitler , is supported by the mayor's association, Fidesz-KDNP candidate Ruzsa Roland , who has a good chance of winning in the inner-city electoral district, because in 2019 Mihálffy collected nearly sixty percent of the votes here.
In Eger, there is no longer a trace of the left-wing coalition. Against the candidate of Fidesz-KDNP, the DK is the only left-wing party to field a candidate. The piquancy of the by-election announced in the county seat of Heves is that Mátyás Berecz, , resigned from the representative office after winning the primary election. DK's Berecz probably believed in a sure election victory, but on April 3rd he easily lost to Fidesz's Gábor Pajtók , so he fell to the bench out of two seats.
In Nyíregyháza, new representatives are elected in two districts, the left-wing parties support two candidates each against the candidates of Fidesz-KDNP . Péter Márki-Zay 's Everyone's Hungary Movement and Párbeszéd nominated separate candidates against the others.
The governing parties can try in four Budapest districts this Sunday. The VIII. in the district, the former right-wing representative, Judit Gondos , who in 2019 was only seven votes short of her left-wing competitor, who died later, is running again. If Judit Gondos wins, the left-wing András Pikó, , may be reduced to a minority.
The VII. Tamás Borka-Szász from the Gyurcsány party, who failed due to bitcoin mining . It is interesting that the candidate of the left is not supported by Momentum , although they are the most likely.
The IV. in the district, a by-election is held in the individual electoral district No. 2 due to the death of the former left-wing representative, here too the left-wing is the candidate. In Budapest's 5th district, however, the Fidesz-KDNP candidate may be the runner-up , since new elections had to be called due to the resignation of one of the Fidesz local representatives in individual electoral district No. 3.
On June 26, elections will be held in three villages on the shores of Lake Balaton. In Balatonalmádi, the former Member of Parliament from Jobbik, Lajos Kepli , resigned from the position of mayor before April 3, hinting that it would be better for the settlement to have a leader from the ruling party. In Balatonberény, the local representatives were concerned with the fact that the independently elected mayor later joined Fidesz, so they dissolved the board. The former mayor is now also running as an independent. In Balatonederic, they can choose a new settlement leader from among three independent candidates.
Source: Magyar Nemzet/Márk Kreft-Horváth
(Cover photo: MTI/Tamás Kovács )
