Hungarian parliament elected head election body

Veteran election official Róbert Sasvári has been elected to head Hungary’s National Election Committee (NVB) to serve a nine-year term.

Zoltán Lehel on Monday was elected as his deputy.

The committee’s members elected in 2013 saw their terms expire on Sept. 30.

President Katalin Novák made the appointments after parliament voted with a two-thirds majority to put names forward for the new committee.