Poorest village, highest number of candidates: the 2024 June 9th elections in Tiszabura

(Tiszabura, for Népszava)

The village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County had the highest number of candidates in the municipal elections nationwide, 51 in total.The half a hundred candidates were allowed to send the same number of delegates to the polling stations, who selflessly "helped" the voters. However, the atmosphere was not only tense here, where fraud followed fraud, with sometimes three people in a booth at the same time, but also on the street. Many people were fed up with former mayor László Farkas (FIROSZ), who they said had been pumping out money for his own family. The CiKöSz headed then by Attila Sztojka, Fidesz MP and State Secretary for Roma Relations, has launched a candidate. Géza Vavrik, an entrepreneur, has won as a gadjo in the segregated village, which is 95% Roma and one of the poorest settlements in the country. Although there was a fierce battle for votes, the parties agreed on one thing: everyone on the EU list voted for Fidesz, as Roma organisations seek the favour of the governing party.

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