Current Election Law In Hungary Leaves Field Wide Open For Cheating, Says DK

  • 17 Mar 2014 8:00 AM
Current Election Law In Hungary Leaves Field Wide Open For Cheating, Says DK
There is a grounded suspicion that several parties that managed to collect the necessary number of signatures for setting up national lists only did so by cheating, the leftist Democratic Coalition party said. Former prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány’s party, which belongs to the left-of-centre Unity opposition alliance, insisted that the ruling Fidesz party had created an election law for people who “don’t cheat only if they don’t want to”.

DK said there was no way of establishing whether or not the party lists had been assembled on the basis of a valid list of recommending signatures. The party insisted that Fidesz in fact went about financially rewarding parties which cheated. It is easy to fake recommending signatures under the law, and the suspicion is that several parties have resorted to such means, DK said.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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