DK To Release Polling Station Minutes
- 12 Apr 2018 8:12 AM
- Hungary Matters
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has obtained the handwritten minutes compiled by all polling stations in Sunday’s election, and said it would release them on Wednesday so that they can be compared with the election results published online, DK’s spokesman said.
DK still refuses to accept the outcome of the election, Zsolt Gréczy told a press conference, alleging that electoral fraud had been committed in a number of districts. He said it could not be ruled out that the government and ruling Fidesz had “consciously planned to cheat” in Sunday’s ballot.
Gréczy said there were over 200 polling stations where the share of invalid votes was more than 3%, while the national average was around 1%. There were also some polling stations where the difference between votes cast for a party’s candidate and national list were unusually large, he added.
Gréczy said that if necessary, DK could produce witnesses who could verify that there were polling stations where no votes were registered for the party, even though there were people who had voted for them. He said DK would submit complaints in every district where they suspected electoral fraud.
Asked if DK would boycott parliament in the coming cycle, Gréczy said the party would weigh all its options before making a decision. He added, at the same time, that whenever DK had walked out of parliament in the past, they had been left with fewer ways to enforce their political will.
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