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{\bf Bojan Mohar}
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{\bf Triangulations and the Haj\'os Conjecture}
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The Haj\'os Conjecture was disproved in 1979 by Catlin.
Recently, Thomassen showed that there are many ways that
Haj\'os conjecture can go wrong. On the other hand, he observed 
that locally planar graphs and triangulations of the projective
plane and the torus satisfy Haj\'os Conjecture, and he
conjectured that the same holds for arbitrary triangulations
of closed surfaces. In this note we disprove the conjecture
and show that there are different reasons why the Haj\'os Conjecture
fails also for triangulations.

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