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Election committee declares Karacsony winner in mayoral election recount

Budapest's incumbent mayor, Gergely Karacsony, has come out on top in the mayoral election recount, the election committee said on Friday.

Robert Sasvari, the National Election Committee’s (NVB) head, said after the recount that Karacsony (Parbeszéd-Greens-DK-Socialists) notched up 371,538 votes, David Vitezy (David Vitezy for Budapest-LMP-Greens) received 371,245, with a difference between the two candidates of 293 votes.

“There are three Hungarian truths: we won first time round, we won a second time, and on Friday we won a third time,” Karacsony said on Facebook after the result was declared. He said the outcome of the recount gave him a good reason “to say once again: thank you, Budapest!”.

Meanwhile, David Vitezy, Karacsony’s rival for the post, said on Facebook: “The election is over but our work is just beginning.” He congratulated Karacsony and also expressed gratitude for the support and encouragement during the campaign and “the dogged work of volunteers and my colleagues”.

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