Opposition to reject election results? Semi-burnt pro-opposition mailed votes found in Romania – UPDATED

Hungarian opposition parties are demanding the immediate destruction of vote-by-mail slips after many of them were found dumped and partially burned in an illegal landfill near Sfantu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy) in Romania.

This “vile political crime” must not pass without consequences, Párbeszéd spokesman Richárd Barabás told an online press briefing streamed on Facebook. The united opposition is therefore turning to the National Election Committee with a demand that it investigate the case and prevent any further abuses, he added.

Anna Orosz of Momentum said that what had happened to mailed votes in Transylvania and Vojvodina

eroded confidence in fair elections

and put ethnic Hungarians in “a humiliating position”. She said that voting slips were distributed to ethnic Hungarian Vojvodina voters by allies of Fidesz rather than the Serbian Postal Service, and that the ballots were often filled out in their presence.

Dániel Z. Kárpát, Jobbik’s deputy leader, said news from Romania’s Transylvania and Serbia’s Vojvodina region suggested that

Fidesz planned to commit election fraud on Sunday.

Referring to the infamous “blue-ballot fraud” during the 1947 elections, he said “the fact that the one-time young democrat Fidesz politicians had become old Bolsheviks does not authorise them to commit a similar election fraud.”

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Meanwhile, Orosz demanded the government guarantee equal conditions for all Hungarian citizens casting their votes abroad.