Speaking a day after a recount of invalid votes in the contest was initiated by Dávid Vitézy, the runner-up, Karácsony said the recount presented too many legal uncertainties and proposed a repeat of the election as "the only remedy".
He added that the withdrawal from the race of Alexandra Szentkirályi, the Fidesz-KDNP candidate, at the last minute, was part of a "strategy to mislead voters".
Karacsony took 47.53% of the vote in the race on Sunday. while Vitézy garnered 47.49%, corresponding to a difference of a little more than 300 votes.
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