Hungarian sovereigntist leader Viktor Orban won a fourth victory in a row on Sunday, much more easily than expected, after legislative elections in the shadow of the war in Ukraine.
The party of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban would have won the Hungarian legislative elections on Sunday, heading for a fourth term in a row, according to the first partial official results published by the National Electoral Bureau (NVI).
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At 58, the oldest incumbent leader of the European Union (EU) faced an unprecedented and disparate alliance of six parties, and analysts had predicted a tight battle as never before. But according to partial results, his Fidesz party won 54.24% of the vote after counting 77% of the ballots, against 33.92% for the opposition, said the National Electoral Office. The attendance was strong, approaching the records recorded in 2018.
“Dear friends, we have won an exceptional victory – a victory so great that you can probably see it from the moon, and certainly from Brusselssaid sovereigntist leader Viktor Orban, who often has a contentious relationship with the European Union, in a short speech after the publication of partial official results.
The ballot was marked by a turnout of 68.7%, a figure close to the record of four years ago. We still have to finish counting the ballots of the big cities, but if this result were to be confirmed, it would mark an increase for Fidesz and its Christian Democrat allies, who had won a total of 49.27% of the votes in the previous election in 2018. Orban then won a two-thirds majority in Parliament, as in 2010 and 2014.
The full official result will only be known during the week, after the counting of hundreds of thousands of votes from voters from the diaspora as well as expatriates. The ballot was held for the first time under the supervision of more than 200 international observers. Each camp also deployed thousands of volunteers.
The Hungarian legislative voting system combines simple majority by constituency and proportional, a system implemented for the first time in 2014 and favoring, according to analysts, Fidesz in power.