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18 January 2014

Politics.HU: Hungarian President sets date of 2014 election for April 6


President Áder indicated in a press release that he had chosen 6 April as the official election date, saying that he had chosen this date so that the country could have a new government as quickly as possible.

Parties able to field individual candidates in all 106 constituencies will be given financing from the central budget and will have a period of 50 days, starting from February 15, in which to campaign for the ballots of Hungary’s eight million eligible voters.

For the first time since Hungary’s transition to democracy, the election will have a single round. Further, the number of seats in parliament will be reduced to 199 from 386.

A party may draw up a national list if they have at least an individual candidate in 27 constituencies in at least nine counties and Budapest. No party with less than 5 per cent of the vote for its list can win a party-list mandate.

Under the constitution, the founding session of the new parliament will be convened by the president of the republic within 30 days after the general election. The prime minister will be elected by a majority of lawmakers based on the president’s proposal. Parliament will approve the government’s programme and elect the prime minister simultaneously.

In the past four elections the government took its oath of office between one-and-a-half and three weeks after the founding session.

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