Hungary, premier Orban wins third term: "Opportunity to defend country"

2019-10-13T10:01:19.153Z

The Hungarian premier Viktor Orban won the election overwhelmingly, winning his third consecutive mandate from 2010 in a vote that saw a record turnout in the country. The ruling party Fidesz retains an absolute majority in parliament with 48.9% of the votes. According to the Jobbik party with 20%, third the socialist-green alliance with 12%. All day long queues were registered in front of the polling stations, a turnout never seen in the country. A great participation that had made analysts hypothesize the possibility of a good affirmation of the oppositions that could have made Fidesz lose an absolute majority. Which didn't happen. Until the polls closed, at 5.5 pm, about 5.5 million voters went to the polls, 70%, against a turnout of 61.73% in 2014. About 1547 the candidates vying for the 199 seats in parliament. Fidesz and his ally the Christian Democratic party would have won 133. Second place in the elections went to Jobbik of Gabor Vona, a conservative nationalist, but no longer Eurosceptic party, who had promised a fight against generalized corruption attributed to Orban. Following the socialist-green alliance (Mszp-P) and other political formations. The victory - these were the first words of Orban who celebrated the result with his supporters - is an opportunity "to defend Hungary". According to observers, it was above all the hammering that went on for months, even through the public media he controlled, about the "mortal danger" that would be threatening the Hungarians: the arrival of thousands of Muslim migrants, with the relocation mandatory required by the EU. "We have to decide well, because there will be no way to repair any more, we risk losing our country, which will become a country of immigrants," he said on election day. A message that has clearly received the favor of the electorate.