Mayor Gergely Karácsony attacked the choice of the Nationwide Election Fee on June 14 following the vote recount (in accordance with which Gergely Karácsony gained the mayoral election with 41 votes).
In his request for evaluate, which was seen by the Index, he justified the need of re-ordering the overall mayor election by formulating a number of issues. As is understood, final week the president of the Nationwide Election Workplace (NVI) tasked the leaders of the native election workplaces (HVI) in Budapest to open the sealed poll packing containers/packing containers, seal the invalid ballots in a supply envelope and ship it to the headquarters of the NVI.
Nevertheless, in accordance with Karácsony:
- Based on the data of the opening of the urns/packing containers, II., IX., XIII. and the XV. within the district, no HVB member was current on the opening of the poll field, IV. district, in accordance with the assertion of the HVB member current, the packing containers weren’t correctly sealed, whereas the XVII. district, there was no indication within the minutes that an HVB member was current on the opening of the poll field. It was additionally established that the XVIII. HVB member was not current throughout many of the poll opening course of within the district.
- It may also be learn from the minutes made on the headquarters of the NVI that the bundles of ballots within the supply envelope couldn’t be categorised as unopened bundles within the following voting districts per district:
District I. 6 polling stations, II. district 34 polling station, III. district 87 polling station, IV. district 45 voting precincts, V. district 7 voting precincts, VI. district 3 polling station, VII. district 11 polling station, VIII. district 26 polling station, IX. district 1 voting precinct, X. district 28 voting precincts, XI. district 63 polling station, XII. district 6 polling station, XIII. district 5 polling station, XIV. district 51 polling station, XV. district 26 polling station, XVI. district 50 polling station, XVII. district 74 polling station, XVIII. district 31 polling station, XIX. district 35 polling station, XX. district 23 polling station, XXI. district 19 polling station, XXII. district 10 polling station, XXIII. district 8 polling station,
due to this fact, the electoral process legislation is violated. Based mostly on all of this, the mayor believes that doubts could come up as as to if the content material of the ballots might have been modified between the counting of the votes by the vote counting committee on the night time of the election and the recount by the election committee appearing as a authorized treatment discussion board or the court docket.
Though they can not present proof that such abuse truly came about, they identified that the conduct of the recalculation didn’t rule it out in any case,
for the reason that content material of the recounted ballots couldn’t be assured unchanged, and the variety of invalid ballots involved exceeded the distinction between the variety of votes of the primary and second candidate.
They’re requesting that the mayoral election be repeated in all the administrative space of Budapest, as a result of the variety of voting districts concerned is so massive, and they’re positioned in such a mosaic-like method within the metropolis, {that a} repeat restricted to solely these voting districts would confuse a variety of voters, and the totally different willingness to take part would give a distinct weight to the votes of the voters belonging to non-repeated and repeated voting districts to such an extent that it will violate the constitutional precept of equality of the correct to vote.
By the truth that HVB members weren’t current in lots of districts throughout the opening of the poll packing containers, the mayor’s management not directly accused primarily the left-wing districts of not having the ability to make sure the authorized circumstances regionally. Two-thirds of the objectionable bundling issues (424 instances) additionally occurred in opposition districts, the place the native election workplace is supervised by the left.
It’s price remembering that Gergely Karácsony mentioned even earlier than the outcomes of the recount have been introduced, “on the entire, it’s tough to see the present process as something apart from a component of the technique that worldwide election observers additionally acknowledged: it resulted within the deception of the voters”.
The request for revision submitted to the Court docket is written by the lawyer Csaba Tordai, who could also be concerned in two felony proceedings performed by the Nationwide Tax and Customs Workplace, which have been initiated because of the suspicion of price range fraud, cash laundering and using false personal paperwork.
We requested a number of analysts concerning the astonishing and absurd scenario that Gergely Karácsony gained the mayoral race, however nonetheless needs a brand new election. You may learn our compilation by clicking right here.
(Cowl picture: Vote recount on June 14, 2024. Picture: Bence Tövissi / Index)
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