PM Orbán’s candidate Szentkirályi ready to defeat opposition mayor of Budapest – UPDATED

Alexandra Szentkirályi, the ruling parties’ candidate for Budapest mayor in the upcoming municipal election, has collected “the required number or even more” of recommendation slips to run, she said before submitting the slips at the City Hall on Saturday.

The candidate thanked “the many thousand” Budapest residents for their support and pledged to visit “every nook and cranny” of the city to listen to them and share her programme.

She said she would be a mayor that “does not keep complaining but who is able to complete things, who does not point a finger to others and who is willing to work with the government to ensure development”. She said she would work so that “Budapest residents have a mayor rather than Ferenc Gyurcsány has one”.

Fidesz launches billboard campaign

Ruling Fidesz has launched an “outdoor” campaign of putting out billboards and distributing leaflets in preparation for the upcoming European parliamentary and municipal elections, the communications director of the party said in a video on Facebook on Sunday.

Tamás Menczer spoke standing in front of a billboard showing opposition politicians and the inscription “Brussels’s humble servants” and said Hungary’s “dollar left would do anything on instructions from Brussels”.

“If it were up to them we would go to war, there would be an influx of migrants, and we would have men dressed as women, that is the LGBTQ propaganda,” Menczer said. “We must not let Brussels decide on our life in cooperation with the dollar-left,” he added.

Fidesz MEP: Fidesz candidates collect necessary recommendation slips

The candidates of ruling Fidesz have collected the recommendation slips necessary to run at the elections on June 9, Tamás Deutsch, the candidate leading Fidesz’s list at the EP elections, said on Sunday.

Deutsch said in a video on Facebook that Fidesz’s candidates for municipality representatives, mayors, as well as the county lists, Budapest mayoral candidate and the party’s European parliamentary list have received the necessary recommendations.

He thanked the party’s supporters for “making Fidesz the first to collect all recommendations.” He also thanked the party’s more than 50,000 volunteers “working at nearly 10,000 locations in 1,200 localities”.

“On June 9, 2024, peace only! Only Fidesz,” he concluded.

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