Watch: Brief Explainer on Hungarian Elections
- 1 Apr 2022 12:16 PM
Source: Euronews
MTI Photo: Tamás Vasvári
Source: Euronews
MTI Photo: Tamás Vasvári
Gergely Karacsony, the mayor of Budapest, has said ruling Fidesz wanted to boost its own election chances by reducing the number of electoral districts in the capital and thereby diluting the city's voting weight in parliament relative to its population.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he was grateful to Georgians for not letting their country become "a second Ukraine". Orban also told a press conference in Tbilisi on Tuesday that no one dared question the legitimacy of the general election in Georgia as free and democratic.
The opposition Socialist Party elected Imre Komjathi as its leader at the party's congress on Saturday.
The leader of Hungary's opposition Tisza Party called for "a boycott of the propaganda media's products" at a demonstration held at the headquarters of MTVA, the Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA), on Saturday afternoon.
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