Two small opposition parties, the conservative Democratic Forum (MDF) and the liberal Free Democrats (SZDSZ), have sealed a pact to cooperate in Budapest’s electoral districts in the spring parliamentary elections, an MDF official said on Thursday.
Under the plan, SZDSZ will field 17 candidates and MDF 14 candidates in the capital and the parties will agree on a mutually acceptable candidate to lead their Budapest list, head of MDF’s Budapest chapter Zoltan Levai told MTI.
Under Hungary’s electoral system, parties with a sufficient number of supporters can create national and regional party lists. Parties are allowed to send candidates to parliament from these lists in proportion to the fraction of votes received by a candidate who did not win in an individual constituency.
MDF and SZDSZ has recently engaged in talks on cooperation in the general elections, but they are not running a joint national ballot.
MDF garnered 3 percent support and SZDSZ around one percent in recent polls, both below the 5 percent threshold needed to win seats in parliament.
The elections will be held on April 11.
Will it keep them out of prison?
No, but who on the joint lists has the Prosecutor charged with anything?