Socialists Want President Ader To Reject Changes To Budapest Council

(MTI) – The opposition Socialist Party has asked President Janos Ader not to sign a new municipal election law, which would “destroy Budapest”, acting Socialist head Laszlo Botka said on Monday.

The Socialists will start collecting signatures to appeal to the Constitutional Court should Ader sign the bill into law, Botka said.

Under the ruling Fidesz-proposed law, Budapest’s 33-seat city council would include the mayor of Budapest, 23 district mayors and nine other members to be elected from among mayoral candidates who fail to win seats in the election.

Botka is head of the Socialist Party’s national election committee, a body steering the party until its leaders are elected in July.

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters