Index – National – Fidesz candidate Zsófia Koncz wins provisional elections in Borsod

With almost 100 percent of the votes processed, Koncz won 51 percent of the votes, while Lobbló Bíró, his opposition-backed opponent, won 46 percent. The difference is 1722 votes.

In Tiszaújváros-based Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county individual constituency No. 6, a provisional election had to be called after Fidesz’s Ferenc Koncz was killed in a car accident in July. The government side chose Zsófia Koncz, daughter of the deceased deputy, for the elections. The cooperation of the opposition (DK, Momentum, Jobbik, LMP, MSZP, Dialogue) supported László Bíró, a right-wing man, but for administrative reasons his own party could not officially nominate him.

Gábor Váradi, representative of the Roma municipality of Miskolc, Tibor Szanyi’s party Ádám Tóth, supported by the Yes Solidarity Movement for Hungary (ISZOMM), and Erika Sóváriné Bukta, who participated in the elections, also ran independently.

With the death of Ferenc Koncz, the two-thirds parliamentary majority of Fidesz, which requires 133 members, was abolished on paper, so the cooperation of the opposition termed the two-thirds breakdown of electoral stakes. On the part of the government, this was called a false statement, Dániel Deák, XXI. A senior analyst at the Century Institute told Index:

Regardless of the election outcome, there will still be two-thirds of parliamentary support behind the government, as the German MP and the now independent former right-wing politicians vote alongside the Fidesz-KDNP on key decisions.

Attila Tibor Nagy, an analyst at the Center for Equity Policy Analysis, told Index Sunday morning: If the victory of Zsófia Koncz, the benefits of the opposition coalition can be questioned, but only if the results are not close. .

Index staff all day followed the events from the place, you can read our minute by minute report here.

(Cover image: Gábor Czerkl / Index)