Hungary does not change: Viktor Orban wins again. As the agency Ansa reports, the outgoing Prime Minister has a clear advantage with over 20% of the votes, since the coalition consists of the ruling party Fidesz and from the Christian Democrats of cdnpwith 134 seats out of a total of 199 and the opposition with just 57. One of the most important votes in the country’s history, in which Prime Minister Orbán ran for the fourth consecutive year, was the turnout 67.8%, a little less than four years ago.
The prime minister who went to vote with his wife early in the morning Aniko Levai In a school on the outskirts of Budapest, he had predicted one “Big Victory”, but a certain nervousness pervaded the words leaked to the press. For the first time, Orbán felt shadowed by an opposition presenting itself in a single coalition, United for Hungary. An electoral cartel that brought together six parties of different political leanings, led by Peter MarkiZay. Everyone is united by the goal of ending the season of “illiberal democracy that Orbán opened.
Support for the opposition also came from the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who addressed Orbán again on Saturday evening, “the only one in Europe who openly supports Putin. “I’m not afraid to call the war by its name attacked the Ukrainian head of state that’s called honesty that’s missing Victor Orban, maybe he lost it somewhere in his relations with Moscow . But Zelenskyy’s insult, adding to that leveled during the European summit, may have proved counterproductive. Progovernment propaganda spread fears among voters that the opposition would drag Hungary into the war by allowing arms shipments to Ukraine.
There is also a shadow of voting cheating. Then go Hungarian Union for Civil Liberties reported irregularities. TO Hortobagy, a citizen of eastern Hungary, the local government organized and advertised buses to get people to vote, according to activists. “The local electoral commission has declared that this is illegal, but our activists the NGO claims have identified a bus transporting them”. These allegations come on top of suspicions reported in recent days by several journalists who found burned ballot papers in Romania, in a region inhabited by the Hungarian minority. It is no coincidence that the OSCE for the first time in an EU country sent 200 observers to monitor the correct conduct of the vote. Which promises to be more controversial than ever.