Hungary’s Supreme Court Rejects E-PM Request Over Election Law Provision

  • 28 Apr 2014 7:00 AM
Hungary’s Supreme Court Rejects E-PM Request Over Election Law Provision
The Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, has rejected a request by leftist opposition alliance E-PM to examine the results of election lists from the point of view of an election law rule that it is contesting with the Constitutional Court.

The Kúria said E-PM’s request was unfit for a probe by the court because the party had not specified any regulations that the rules had violated. The Kúria added that the election system was outside of its scope of power.

E-PM told MTI on Sunday that it was submitting a complaint to the Constitutional Court with the aim of eliminating the “winner’s compensation” in the counting of election results.

The alliance said voters would have mandated a simple majority to governing Fidesz-KDNP in the general election on April 6, but the election rules introduced by the governing parties had given them a two-thirds majority.

Governing Fidesz’s press office told MTI that the “failed left” was trying to put the clear wishes of Hungarian voters into question with different “tricks”.

The left has learnt nothing from their latest failure: the same politicians continue to tell the same lies, the statement said.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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