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- Title
Pécs város törvényhatósági bizottsága 1918 és 1929 között.
- Authors
GÁBOR, NAGY IMRE
- Abstract
Half of the legislative committee in Pécs consisted of 'virile' members (the largest tax payers), and the other half was comprised of elected members. The last general local elections were held in 1914, and the mandates of the members were extended due to the war. During the Serbian occupation between 1918 and 1921, a local election was held in 1920, which was not recognized by the returning Hungarian administration. In the fall of 1921, only 84 people from the 114-member legislative committee of 1918 were active. In 1921, the Social Democrats unsuccessfully initiated the completion of the legislative committee through by-elections. The mayor called in the alternate members of 1918 to the vacant virile committee seats, and from 1925 the virile membership seats were renewed annually. However, no decision was taken on the by-elections until 1926, when László Visy and 17 other members initiated local by-elections following the example of Hódmezővásárhely, as 23 of the 57 elected committee members were already missing. The mayor and city council seemingly gave in to the general assembly, but in fact tried to avoid the elections as it was easier for him to govern the city with the incomplete local body. Using different practices, he managed to delay new elections until 1929.
- Subjects
PECS (Hungary); ELECTIONS; SPECIAL elections; LEGISLATIVE committees; MUNICIPAL government; CITY councils; LOCAL elections; MAYORAL elections
- Publication
Múltunk, 2022, Issue 2, p47
- ISSN
0864-960X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.56944/multunk.2022.2.3