Local elections – Budapest Mayoral Candidates Cast Ballots

Budapest, October 12 (MTI) – Mayoral candidates for the city of Budapest cast their votes in Hungary’s local elections on Sunday.

Mayoral candidate for the Liberals, Zoltan Bodnar, declined to speculate on the percent of the vote his party would take after casting his ballot, but he said it had been worthwhile to establish the party and that there were people who identified themselves as liberal in the capital.

Antal Csardi, mayoral candidate for Budapest of the green opposition party LMP, said casting his vote that his party expected significantly better results in this local election than in the previous one four years earlier. He added that the party’s programme had been well received and that people were glad that the party was striving to solve Budapest’s problems.

Lajos Bokros, the mayoral candidate of the conservative Movement for a Modern Hungary, also cast his vote in the morning on Sunday but declined to comment for journalists at the polling station. He said he would make a statement in the evening.