VIKTOR ORBAN made history on April 8th as his illiberal Fidesz party swept back to power for the third time in a row since 2010. Almost-complete results showed by the following morning that Fidesz was likely to have won a two-thirds supermajority in Parliament, with 133 of 199 seats, enough to alter the constitution. Jobbik, a nationalist party that is now tacking to the centre, came second with 26 and a Socialist-led coalition third, with 20. Most of the remainder were divided between small liberal and left-wing parties, which in many places split the anti-Fidesz vote. Turnout was 69%.
Mr Orban told a cheering crowd of his supporters: “We have won. Hungary has won a great victory.” The high turnout, he said, had “cast aside all doubts”. Fidesz won almost 49% of votes, compared with 45% in 2014, after a campaign that focused almost exclusively on the supposed threat to national sovereignty posed by migrants, of whom Hungary has accepted vanishingly few. Mr Orban also railed against...Continue reading
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