Based on the knowledge of the Nationwide Election Fee, after the recount of invalid votes within the mayoral election, a whole lot of votes initially declared invalid have been discovered to be legitimate, nearly all of which supported Dávid Vitézy. On the similar time, a smaller proportion of votes forged for Gergely Karácsony have been additionally discovered.
The NVI reclassified a complete of 560 invalid votes to legitimate onesof which 395 belong to Dávid Vitézy, 112 to Gergely Karácsony, 53 to András Grundtner. Primarily based on this, the distinction between the 2 potential mayoral candidates decreased by 283 votes, and Gergely Karácsony retained a bonus of 41 votes.
SO IN THE END, BY A SMALL DIFFERENCE, ALL WITH 41 VOTES, GERGELY KÁRČSONY REMAINED IN THE LEAD, SO HE WON THE BUDAPEST MAYOR ELECTION.
Along with establishing the results of the recount, the NVI made one other necessary resolution. It needed to be determined whether or not it was okay to vote in IV. and VII. district. Based on Vitézy, the truth that the identify of Alexandra Szentkirályi, who withdrew, was crossed out with a skinny pen on the poll might have been deceptive. This request was rejected by the NVI, which means that it was determined that there could be no new voting in these two districts.
THIS FINALLY DECIDED THAT THE RESULT OF THE ELECTION CAN BE CONSIDERED FINAL.
Primarily based on the ultimate consequence and the preliminary political reactions, an attention-grabbing state of affairs arose. The winner, Gergely Karácsony, has a promise that no matter the results of the recount, he’ll ask for a recount, and Dávid Vitézy has a promise that he’ll settle for no matter consequence the recount results in. So the promise of each of them is definitely inconvenient given the results of the recount: Karácsony will surely be comfortable to simply accept the defeat from Vitézy, and it could be rational for Vitézy to grab the final likelihood and settle for Karácsony’s supply for the brand new competitors.
Dávid Vitézy spoke
Dávid Vitézy issued an announcement shortly after the vote counting resolution. In it he acknowledged:
From Vitézy’s assertion, it isn’t but clear what the connection between factors 2 and three is, i.e. repeated voting or acceptance of the consequence would be the remaining resolution. That is an much more necessary query as a result of after the publication of the publish, the NVI rejected Vitézy’s request for authorized redress.
In different phrases, the state of affairs has actually arisen the place the winner guarantees a brand new election, and the loser guarantees to simply accept the consequence.
The latter, nevertheless Primarily based on Dávid Vitézy’s assertion, it’s not so clear, so a couple of attention-grabbing rounds can nonetheless be anticipated within the matter of the mayor’s election. All of the extra so as a result of Karácsony confirmed in his speech after the choice that he’s calling for a brand new election.
The antecedents of the mayoral election recount
Dávid Vitézy acknowledged on Wednesday that they’ve proof from 20 districts, together with 202 polling stations, that the enumerators wrongly declared votes invalid. Dávid Vitézy highlighted, particularly the IV. district (2221 models) and VII. within the district (1057 votes), the proportion of invalid votes was excellent.
The Nationwide Electoral Workplace upheld the enchantment and set a recount for Friday.
In response to the state of affairs, Gergely Karácsony stated on Thursday:
I feel there is just one reply to the state of affairs: if we repeat the mayoral election in Budapest.
Karácsony added that if the NVB doesn’t settle for his proposal, he’ll problem the consequence establishing the recount on the Courtroom, and within the final case he’ll enchantment to the Constitutional Courtroom.
Plenty of votes needed to be recounted
Members of the Nationwide Election Fee recounted a complete of 24,592 invalid votes at this time. 7 committee members elected by the Parliament, delegates of events with parliamentary factions (Fidesz-KDNP, DK, MSZP, Momentum, Jobbik, Mi Hazánk, Párbeszéd, LMP) and committee members delegated by proper of the EP record took half within the counting.
After the primary depend, the variety of votes registered as invalid was as follows per district:
- district: 331
- district: 1037
- District: 1579
- district: 2221
- district: 427
- district: 451
- district: 1057
- district: 1222
- district: 694
- district: 1009
- District: 1940
- district: 1107
- district: 1474
- District: 1379
- district: 1065
- District: 980
- District: 1350
- District: 1137
- district: 776
- district: 1036
- district: 1013
- district: 1007
- district: 300
Through the first recount, committee members made choices concerning the ballots at two-person tables. The ballots they deemed legitimate have been collected in a separate file, whereas the opposite, nonetheless invalid, ballots have been returned to the envelopes.
After the general public recount, the members of the NVB met once more and the chosen ones determined collectively – beforehand declared invalid, marked as legitimate through the recalculation – ballots, the outcomes have been finalized on the similar time.
Cowl picture supply: MTI Picture/Zoltán Máthé
