Illyés Gergely: A 2024-es romániai európai parlamenti és helyhatósági választások eredményei
Publikálva: KISEBBSÉGI SZEMLE, IX. ÉVFOLYAM, 2024. 3. SZÁM
RESUME
Results of the 2024 Romanian Elections to the European Parliament and to Local Municipalities
In Romania, local elections were held on June 9, 2024, during which voters could vote for the mayors of the settlements and the presidents of the county assemblies, as well as the composition of the county and settlement councils (general assemblies). Elections for the European Parliament were also held at the same time. This was a purely proportional, list system, and the entry threshold for the parties was 5 percent. In the competition of the Romanian parties, the governing parties, the Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat, PSD) and the National Liberal Party (Partidul Național Liberal, PNL), won, thereby making a sufficiently good start for the parliamentary and presidential elections to be held at the end of the year. The two major parties thereby strengthened the power of the party presidents, but the real test for them will come in December. In terms of local authority elections, the two major parties also competed, but here it was already apparent that the PSD gained a slight advantage compared to the PNL, and the former PSD supremacy in the leadership of the county councils has been restored. In the mayoral positions, the traditional parties took back many important settlements from the USR, but in Bucharest the mayor won support from the Save Romania Union (Uniunea Salvați România, USR). The results for Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR) can be classified as good nationally, and the result of the EP list gives cause for confidence in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Regarding the Hungarian results of the local elections, it can be said that the position of the Hungarians in Romania has improved, the DAHR won its most votes in the EP elections in the last 20 years, thereby ending a trend. In the local elections, the most important positions have been preserved, in addition to the two Hungarian-majority counties, the leadership of Maros (Mures) and Szatmár (Satu Mare), as well as in the cities of Marosvásárhely (Targu Mures) and Szatmárnémeti (Satu Mare).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62153/ksz.2024.3.ig
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SZERZŐ:
Illyés Gergely
Politológus, külső munkatárs, Nemzetpolitikai Kutatóintézet
