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Gergely Karacsony was elected in Budapest on 13 October 2019 against the outgoing mayor of Fidesz. REUTERS / Bernadett Szabo

The municipal elections in Hungary, Sunday 13 October 2019, were marked by the end of the electoral omnipotence of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The Fidesz party has already announced that it is going to be hard on those who have swept through several of the country's major cities, including Budapest.

With our special correspondent in Budapest, Anissa El Jabri

The opposition has won several major cities in Turkey, a dozen of which the capital. In Budapest, a symbol, she gets twice what predicted the best polls.

Viktor Orban is no longer untouchable. So it's a slap for Fidesz, the party of a Viktor Orban, who has already said he was going to die hard for those who ruined his day of voting.

This Monday, the opposition straightens the head. In the 8th district of Budapest, the campaign was very harsh, with searches and tapping against opposition parties.

► Also read: Hungarian opposition wins in Budapest, setback for Orban

The brutality of the party in power has passed several notches. This Monday morning, the first words of the new mayor are for civil society. " Completed the harassment towards you ", that is his promise.

Now, that also means a lot of waiting for those teams that take power. Elected officials who - it is true - have come to know each other in recent months, but who come from diverse political traditions.

Between socialists, ecologists, and even populists, not simple to work together indeed. Especially here, Fidesz does not intend to let go of any parcel of power.

► See also: Voting day in Budapest in the outgoing mayor's bastions

His image - it's true, this election has shown - is scratched. In one of his fiefs, a Catholic city in the west of the country, the mayor was re-elected by extreme accuracy.

A video of these antics with prostitutes had caused a scandal. Fidesz, which wants to be the party for the defense of Christian values ​​and the family, had waited the day before the vote to distance itself.

" No question of questioning. So we remain the strongest party and we will continue to behave as such, "viciously threatens the formation of Viktor Orbán.