Elections - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com Monthly in print | Daily on the web Mon, 10 Jun 2024 02:23:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dteurope.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-dt_favicon-32x32.png Elections - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com 32 32 Budapest Mayoral Election Too Close to Call https://dteurope.com/elections/budapest-mayoral-election-too-close-to-call/ Mon, 10 Jun 2024 02:22:45 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=70456 Incumbent Gergely Karácsony won the election for the mayoral post of the Hungarian capital this Sunday but with only a few hundred votes and main rival Dávid Vitézy announced he would ask for a recount. Municipal elections in Hungary were held in parallel with the European Parliamentary elections in which the most Hungarian Euro MP […]

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]]> Hungarian Village Elects Dutch Entrepreneur as Mayor https://dteurope.com/elections/hungarian-village-elects-dutch-entrepreneur-as-mayor/ Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:02:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=24337 An agricultural entrepreneur of Dutch origin but living in Hungary for 22 years, Derks Wilhelmus Jose­phus, has been elected as the mayor of the Western Hungarian village of Egyházasrádóc. Progress, cohesion and preservation of the village's property - this is how he summarized his main ideas to the local Vas County news site vaol.hu. The […]

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]]> Hungarian Opposition Makes Headway in Municipal Elections https://dteurope.com/budapest/hungarian-opposition-makes-headway-in-municipal-elections/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:08:56 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=12919 Scoring its biggest victory in a decade, Hungarian opposition parties conquered the capital Budapest in municipal elections held on Sunday as their candidate, 44-year-old Gergely Karácsony ousted incumbent István Tarlós, backed by the ruling Fidesz party. In addition to snatching the mayoral post from Fidesz, opposition forces - which supported a joint candidate in a […]

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]]> Municipal Elections in Hungary This Sunday https://dteurope.com/elections/municipal-elections-in-hungary-this-sunday-2/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:26:10 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=12864 8 million 25,755 people are eligible to cast ballots for local government representatives and mayors in Hungary on Sunday, October 13. Such elections are held every five years. Chairman of the National Electoral Office, Ilona Pálffy told the Hungarian news agency MTI at a press conference this Friday about the main numbers characterizing the elections. […]

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