A few days after the start of the official campaign, we learned in Dunaújváros that two nominating organizations announced their intention to run, named their candidates and collected the necessary recommendations. The question is, will there be startups outside of the two big organizations? We will know for sure by May 6, as this is the deadline for nominations.
Two stood at the starting line
The “Go, New City!” The association and its president, Tamás Pintér, the current mayor of Dunaújváros, announced at the beginning of the year that the association will be relaunched and that they intend to continue the work started five years ago. Of course, Tamás Pintér is running as a candidate for mayor, and there are three new candidates in the representative team compared to the current one.
Many people were eagerly waiting to see who Fidesz would field in the election, and especially who their mayoral candidate would be. The names of quite a few well-known people appeared in the shower news, and then the balloons popped one after the other, until András Magyar’s news finally turned out to be true. The person of the former local MSZP president in orange colors blew the fuse in several places, to put it mildly, and it became national news. The local KDNP president, as a nominating organization, also protested and distanced himself from the nomination of the former MSZP president. But in the end – even if seasoned with this “little” interlude – the Fidesz-KDNP and the Jövő Új-Városaért Egyesület also stood up.
The starting gun went off on April 20
So the campaign has started and the collection of recommendations has also started. Candidates for mayor must collect the signatures of 300 voters, and candidates for representatives must collect the necessary signatures from 1 percent of eligible voters in their district – they have two weeks to do so.
In a unique way, Tamás Pintér invited his supporters to Városháza tér, as he wrote, “I would like to experience this symbolic and for me uplifting event together with the residents of the city”, who showed up in large numbers on the main square and, waiting for the snaking lines, added their names and signatures to the nomination. Although two weeks were available, in an hour and a half, many more signatures were collected than the required ones, which he handed in right away at the Electoral Office together with the representative candidates.
András Magyar wrote on his social network that “with my fellow representative candidates and our helpers, we set out for the city to ask for the honorable trust of the voters of Dunaújváros”.
As we learned from the head of the Local Election Office, the first “Go, New City!” An association submitted the recommendation forms, and then the Fidesz-KDNP and the Jövő Új-Városasárt Egyesület also successfully collected and submitted the necessary recommendations that day.
(Photo: Zoltán Végh)
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