Index – Abroad – Historic victory: Târgu Mureş has a Hungarian mayor again!



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The victory speech of Zoltán Soós on the night of September 27, 2020 in Târgu Mureş.

The victory speech of Zoltán Soós on the night of September 27, 2020 in Târgu Mureş.

Photo: Zoltán Soós / Facebook

After twenty years, Târgu Mureş has reelected Zoltán Soós, the Hungarian mayor, with an unbeatable advantage based on the votes counted so far. Soós started for the post in 2016, but at that time he was in close competition with Dorin Florea, who has led the city since 2000. The Romanian mayor did not run again in the current elections, supporting Claudiu Maiort, candidate of the left-wing Pro party. Romania. With this, after the resignation of Imre Fodor in 2000, the largest city in Szeklerland, with an ethnic Romanian majority, is once again mayor of Hungary.

Soós, in an interview with Index early in his campaign, spoke about the fact that there is a Târgu Mureş with two large national communities and the same problem for Romanians and Hungarians. Also he said:

The most important thing is to put the city in motion. Not just on Election Day, but in general. We have been standing in one place for twenty years. We got into a kind of traffic jam, both literally and figuratively. That needs to change. You don’t have to think of big things for that. There are many good examples in our area, from Cluj-Napoca to Sepsiszentgyörgy, cities that are ahead of us. I’m not ashamed to learn from them!

More results from Transylvania

In Sepsiszentgyörgy, Árpád Antal won another mandate: writes and Transindex. In Odorheiu Secuiesc – the main square according to – The previous mayor, Árpád Gálfi, also trembled again.



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