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JOBBIK TURNS TO KÚRIA OVER LOCAL ELECTION CLASH WITH FIDESZ

 

The opposition Jobbik party has said it is turning to the Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, with a demand that it uphold free elections in connection with a by-election in which the opposition’s joint candidate has been blocked from running in the Oct. 11 ballot. Jobbik chairman Péter Jakab said the ruling Fidesz party had used its majority on the National Election Committee (NVB) to uphold a Fidesz complaint that the Tiszaújváros Election Committee had unlawfully registered Jobbik as a nominating organisation since its application was submitted by a representative whose relevant powers had expired. NVB decided earlier 6:5 to uphold Fidesz’s complaint. The by-election will be held in the 6th individual constituency of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, in north-east Hungary, in the wake of the death in July of Ferenc Koncz (Fidesz). The deadline for announcing candidates is 4pm on Sept. 4.