In its decision, the Review Chamber concurred with the local administrative court that changing the rules for the compensation of nationalized property was unfair toward those whose claims simply had not yet been reviewed due to backlogs or complications. In particular, the Chamber cited the Constitution's Art. In addition, Art. The Chamber noted that, even if the original rules had proven too costly, parliament should have made the changes apply to all claimants and not just those whose claims had so far not been decided. Each district has a mayor and a district council.
Local elections occur in one round.
In an effort to capture the most votes in the majoritarian mayoral elections, parties scrambled to form alliances and agree on joint candidates in each district. In Budapest's 23 districts, the governing parties nominated joint mayoral candidates in 20 districts, and they had joint mayoral candidates in all of the 18 county capitals. The opposition parties agreed on joint mayoral candidates in 11 of Budapest's districts and in 3 of the county capitals.