Headline - Coupons

The headline of the February 19, 2010 edition of Metropol was 'The parties are knocking on our doors', referring to the collection of coupons (literal translation: knocking coupons).

Hungarian citizens over 18 get an official announcement on having been registered to the voters’ list and a coupon by which they can recommend a candidate. The parties then collect these coupons. However, smaller parties sometimes do not manage to collect as many as they need, thus corruption begins. The topic of the article mentioned above was that these small parties pay money for the coupons, which ‘cost’ about 1000 HUF (around 3.19 GBP). As I have written it before, the parties would do anything to get our votes.