Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban remains in the lead in the political elections. His party Fidesz has so far obtained 53.1%, while the rivals of ‘United for Hungary’ stop at 35.04%. In third place at 6.4% the far right. The projections would bring Orban’s party 135 seats against 57 of Peter Marki-Zay’s opposition, while the far right would stop at 6.2%.
Orban addressed a crowd and said it was a “great victory” for his party. “We have achieved such a great victory that you can see it from the moon, and you can certainly see it from Brussels,” said Orban, according to whom “the whole world has seen tonight in Budapest that Christian democratic politics, conservative civic politics and politics patriotic they won. We are telling Europe that this is not the past, this is the future, “said Orban. Hungary went to the vote this Sunday, with 199 MEPs to be sent to Parliament and 9.7 million Hungarians called to the polls, but above all the future of Orban is at stake, which since 2010 considers itself one with the country it leads, and with it a good piece of European geopolitical equilibrium. Today the tones are pacifist (“we must stay out of the Ukrainian conflict”) just as in the wave of the roar of the bombs falling on Kharkiv and Mariupol they could reshape the relations of Budapest in the EU: also for this reason in the power palaces of the major capitals polls coming from Hungary have been passed from hand to hand in these hours. The first comments: Orban’s office, “a strong mandate to the winner”
Already the high turnout and “a victory for democracy, which gives a strong mandate to the winner”, so the office of the Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, shortly after the closing of the polls. “We have seen the first projections, which give reason for optimism”, said Gergely Gulya’s, minister in charge of the presidency of the Hungarian Council of Ministers, who however added “I expect a big victory but not a two-thirds majority”. The challenger Marki-Zay: doubts about the correctness of the vote
“Thanks to all the Hungarian citizens who went to the polls: I express my gratitude to all those who have watched over the fairness of the elections all day and who are now starting to count the ballots”, so the opposition candidate, Peter Marki- Zay, who challenged Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Marki-Zay, who represents the opposition coalition “United for Hungary” – leftist parties, environmentalists, liberals and the populist right – further added that “the electoral committee said it could not control the purity of cross-border votes” . The challenger also speaks of “destroyed opposition votes: we hope that our victory does not depend on these votes, as they could cause a constitutional crisis in Hungary”. Viktor Orban,
Orban is the longest-serving head of government in the entire European Union. President of the national-populist party Fidesz, with a first term of prime minister behind him already from 1998 to 2002, the story of Orban is divided in two. In fateful 1989, as a 26-year-old student, he was on the front line demanding free elections and the withdrawal of the Soviet army from Hungary.
Not even ten years later, the former dissident wins the elections and becomes prime minister at 35. Defeated at the polls 4 years later, in his eight years in opposition Orban begins his journey towards increasingly pronounced ultra-conservative positions. In 2010 he challenges and beats the socialists by expelling them from the government, then to the subsequent electoral passages – in 2014 and 2018 – thanks also to a tailor-made electoral reform by Fidesz, at least so his opponents say, he manages to earn a two-thirds majority placing himself with ever greater vigor as a “defender of a Christian Europe” and guardian of the borders in the face of the hordes of migrants. And he is the proponent of barbed wire walls along the borders with Serbia and Croatia in 2019.
