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Daily News Daily News · 22/04/2018
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Election 2018 – Jobbik to appeal election results

Election 2018 - Jobbik to appeal election results

Budapest, 2018. április 8. Z. Kárpát Dániel, a Jobbik alelnöke sajtótájékoztatót tart a párt választási eredményváró rendezvényén a budapesti Aquincum Hotelben 2018. április 8-án. MTI Fotó: Kovács Tamás

The opposition Jobbik party has vowed to appeal the election results and launch a plebiscite on fair media coverage for political parties.

The strongest opposition party will go to court over perceived fraud in the recent election, Dániel Z Karpat, the party’s deputy leader, told a press conference on Saturday.

Jobbik has reviewed the election minutes and consulted its delegates on vote counting committees, concluding that “systemic abuse of power” had affected more than 10,000 votes.

The party has appealed the results declared in 15 constituencies, and unless a proper investigation is forthcoming, the legitimacy of the elections will remain in doubt, he said.

The National Election Office’s “disastrous” handling of voters outside of their constituencies and Hungarian residents abroad has deepened the lack of trust towards the establishment, he said.

On the parties’ media coverage during the election campaign, Z Kárpát said the public media’s biased coverage “breached all regulations and directives”. Jobbik received no longer than two 5 minute slots in public media programming, he said. Jobbik is launching a referendum bid to achieve equal coverage for all “measurable” parties in the public media, he said.

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  1. Eastern Europe Top 10 April 27 – The Vostokian says:
    27/04/2018 at 15:38

    […] to be organizing itself as well, with the socialists forming a coalition and Jobbik taking legal action over claims of election fraud. Jobbik is also leading an effort to separate Hungary’s media from FIDESZ in the form of a […]

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