Budapest mayoral election votes recount an attempted electoral fraud?
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Budapest’s mayor, Gergely Karácsony, has said he would regard a recount of votes cast in last month’s mayoral election as “an attempt at electoral fraud”, in the absence of certain “guarantees”.
Hungary’s supreme court, the Kúria, issued a decision on Sunday ordering a recount of all votes cast in the June 9 election for Budapest mayor.
Karácsony, who ran for re-election as a joint candidate of the Dialogue-Greens, Democratic Coalition and Socialist parties, told a press conference on Monday that there were four specific guarantees that he expected to be met, otherwise, the recount could be interpreted as “a clear attempt at electoral fraud”.
The first, he said, was that ballot boxes and the ballots themselves could not be “taken anywhere” or opened without delegates of the National Election Committee (NVB) present.
His second demand was that opposition NVB delegates also had to be present for the opening of the ballot boxes and ballots.
How is this clown not embarrassed to be claiming a democratic mandate to hold one of the highest and most important offices in the country for five years on the basis of a “victory” of 0.005% of the votes!?!
Shameless.