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Mureş County
From the Hungarian point of view, the biggest result of the local elections in Romania on Sunday was undoubtedly that After 20 years, the DAHR, and through it the Hungarians of Transylvania, regained the seat of the mayor of Târgu Mureş, the historical capital of Szeklerland, 130,000.
From the near final result, the projects close to DAHR, but starting independently, with the support of DAHR and the Zoltán Soós received more votes than all his Romanian opponents combined, According to the data so far, 25 thousand, which is 50.3 percent, which is an excellent performance compared to 45 percent of Hungarians in Marosvásárhely.
There may be a Hungarian majority in the local council (the equivalent of the Hungarian local government assembly), but there are no official figures yet. In Târgu Mureş, therefore, the anti-Hungarian system based on corruption and nepotism, marked by the former mayor of Dorin Florea, came to an end, its candidate, Claudiu Maior, the former deputy mayor, received just 17.08 percent, while through her husband, Theodora Benedek, the Romanian ruling Hungarian-named party PNL won just 13.67 percent . Momentum’s Romanian sister party USR-PLUS, mayoral candidate Adrian Németh-Gherman scored below 2 percent.
Zoltán Soós, István Bajkai, Fidesz deputy from Erzsébetváros, and László Pesty, leader of the írdalá.hu campaign, were present on Transylvania Boulevard. So Bajkai was the first of the Hungarian ruling parties to congratulate Soós.
A big surprise for the county of Mureş, Only 26 percent of them were inhabited by Hungarians, and 35,000 Szászrégen will also have a DAHR mayor of Hungarian nationality, for the first time since 2012, in the person of Endre Márk. Endre Márk scored 43 percent, while his main Romanian opponent, who started in the colors of NLP, scored just 32 percent.
In Romania, the chairmen of the county councils have so far been elected by members of the county assemblies, but this year, for the first time, citizens were able to vote directly for him. This can be detrimental to the DAHR because through various political negotiations it is no longer possible to have a Hungarian-speaking council chairman in non-Hungarian majority counties, but in many places the Transylvanian defense organization has still won this Market Stall.
In 38 percent of the Hungarian county of Mureş, former DAHR county council chairman Ferenc Péter was able to win again, winning by 38.7 percent, which corresponds to ethnic proportions. His main opponent, Ioan Cristian Chirteş, who started in the colors of the ruling party, got only 23 percent, while Dorin Floreia, who this time started for the county, had to catch up with a result below 20 percent. hundred.
Satu Mare County
DAHR also performed well in Satu Mare County, at the county seat, the former mayor Gábor Kereskényi was able to win 100,000 in Szatmárnémeti again, that received 51.8 percent of the votes, although the proportion of Hungarians hovers around 40 percent. Kereskényi won 42 percent four years ago. The candidate of Momentum’s Romanian sister party, Radu Panait, received 16.6%, while the Social Democrat Dorel Coica, a former mayor, won 12.5%.
Another major county town, the 25,000 Charlemagne the former mayor of DAHR, Jenő Kovács, won by almost 70 percent, which is a huge win compared to the 55 percent turnout of Hungarians.The Presidency of the Satu Mare County Council can be retained by DAHR’s Csaba Pataki, who surprisingly won 40 percent, while his very strong Romanian pro-government opponent on the ground, Adrian Cozma, who received all financial and logistical support from Bucharest, received only 28 percent. Compared to 35 percent of Hungarians, this is a great achievement for Pataki.
As expected, DAHR also won in Harghita (85 percent of Hungary) and Covasna (75 percent of Hungary) counties, and Csaba Borboly and Sándor Tamás won again. There have been so many changes in the cities of the two Szekler counties that Tibor Csergő won in Gyergyószentmiklós, so that after 2008 he can again be DAHR mayor in the city. The Covasna County DAHR, by contrast, was lost to DAHR, where EMSZ candidate János Benedek-Huszár won.
Regarding the counties, the DAHR suffered a more serious but predictable defeat in Bihor county due to the modification of the electoral law, as the county will be headed by the Romanian mayor Ilie Bolojan, current mayor of Oradea. Bolojan received 73 percent. DAHR candidate József Szabó won 11 percent, which is enough for second place. Bihor County has so far been led by DAHR’s Sándor Pásztor, but has not started again. Shepherd, by the way, became president of the county council 4 years ago in third place, but thanks to a political agreement, he took the initiative in Bihar. In the new electoral system, this is no longer possible, and with 25% Hungarians, it is not possible to win in Bihar.
In terms of counties, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which has the opposition but a majority of parliamentary seats, has held 20 council presidencies, eight less than 4 years ago. The pro-government NLP won in 17 counties, which is a very good result compared to 8 in 2016. And the DAHR can lead 4 counties instead of the previous 5.
Momentum’s Romanian sister party USR-PLUS did not win in any county, In Timisoara, Brasov, Gyulafehérvár and Bacau, on the other hand, they can hold the position of mayor. In Cluj-Napoca, Arad and Oradea, the PNL mayoral candidates won, it is not yet known whether the three cities will have Hungarian deputy mayors.
Bucharest
Based on near final resultsNicușor Dan, the new mayor of Bucharest, who ran as an independent, with nominal support for PNL and USR-PLUS, but, as Origo, co-chairs of the Macronist Party Alliance wrote, Dan Barna and Dacian Cioloș obstructed their campaign wherever they knew as they wanted Cioloş’s former health minister Vlad Voiculescut as mayor. Nonetheless, Nicuşor Dan won by 42.77 percent, while his main opponent, Gabriela Firea, the former PSD mayor, received 37.95 percent, and former head of state Traian Băsescu got 11 percent.
The main question is with whom Nicuşor Dan will be able to cooperate, because in the capital council (the Hungarian equivalent of the general assembly) both USR-PLUS and PSD won 34%, PNL 17%, Băsescu’s party and PMP 5 %. .
According to Adevărul, the most widely read Romanian newspaperthe new mayor has the only chance to enter the PNL, whose doors are open to him, and the party is also expected to win the December parliamentary elections. Within the NLP, Nicuşor Dan can count on the support of Prime Minister Ludovic Orban and Head of State Klaus Iohannis, only Rareş Bogdan, one of the ruling politicians in the ruling party, is not with him, but as he is an MEP and in Brussels , it doesn’t matter much. According to Adevărul’s analysis, Nicuşor Dan owes his mayor’s chair primarily to Prime Minister Orban, who was backing him after initial hesitation.
The Hungarian left, of course, again misinterpreted the results of the Bucharest elections. As Origo reported, the chairman of the radical left Momentum Movement, András Fekete-Győr, campaigned for the USR-PLUS candidates, encouraging Hungarians in Transylvania to vote for the candidates of their Romanian sister party, but the Transylvanians were not at all receptive to this.
In any case, the momentary Daniel Dániel, II. the district deputy mayor congratulated Nicuşor Dan, calling him “oppositional, progressive and new wave.”
However, it is also clear from the above that Nicuşor Dan started with the support of the ruling party, the NLP, so he is not in the slightest opposition and may even join the NLP soon. The progressive indicator is particularly smile given that the politician in 2017 – officially– He left the USR he founded because it had moved in a progressive direction, so the party did not support an amendment to the Romanian constitution so that marriage could only take place between a man and a woman. In a referendum on this, the USR campaigned against the amendment, while Nicuşor Dan has repeatedly stated that he does not agree with it because he believes such divisive issues should not be addressed and cannot be opposed to the will of the majority. conservative society. And the unofficial reason for leaving the party was that he opposed the party chairman, Dan Barna, and prevented Dacian Cioloş from using the USR for his own purposes.
The adjective “new wave” also does not match reality, as Nicuşor Dan was a third mayoral candidate for the third time, and the USR’s predecessor, USB, was founded in 2006.
Gergely Karácsony’s party partner Benedek Jávor also showed that he had little understanding of Romanian domestic politics when he described Bucharest’s new leader as “progressive” on his community side.
He was also wrong about the fact that Nicuşor Dan had been a candidate for the RSU, since he ran as an independent, with the nominal “support” of the RSU, as we have already written. Maple is unaware of the undoubtedly complex and sometimes controversial political processes taking place in the Romanian capital.
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