Viktor Orban rises with electoral victory, according to the first exit polls

• Elections in Hungary: a 'referendum' between friendship with Russia and reconciliation with the EU

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won the general elections held this Sunday, according to exit polls released by local media at the close of polling stations.

The bloc of six opposition parties led by the independent Peter Marki-Zay has failed to break with twelve years of hegemony of the Fidesz party, thus opening a change for the Hungarians and in relations with Brussels.

Orban, thus ensures a fourth legislature

According to the Median demoscopic institute, Orban's formation, Fidesz, would add 49% of the votes, while the United for Hungary opposition coalition -which brings together leftist parties, environmentalists, liberals and the populist right- would obtain 41%.

State control of the media, the obscene distribution of electoral spaces and the reform of an electoral law that benefits the government party Fidesz, founded and led by Orban, have been decisive in elections that, with Ukraine as a backdrop, They led to a sort of plebiscite.

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was Orban's terrifying message to the electorate.

One of the legal changes promoted by Fidesz was to

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This modification supposes that with an equal result, Orban's party, the opposition must obtain up to 3% more votes to have a parliamentary advantage.

But with all the machinery in his favor and the opportune celebration on election day of a referendum on the prohibition of dealing with sexual diversity in schools that removes prejudices,

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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) therefore deployed 200 observers, something unusual for an EU member country.

In his interim report, he raised concerns that "official government functions are mixed with campaign activities or misused as a campaign tool" and of

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The OSCE has already classified the elections in Hungary in 2014 and 2018 as "free, but not fair", a ruling that Marki-Zay has now made his own.

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