Towards a fourth term in a row for Viktor Orban. The party of the nationalist Prime Minister was at the head of the Hungarian legislative elections this Sunday, according to the first partial official results published by the National Electoral Office (NVI).
Fidesz won 55.75% of the vote after counting nearly 60% of the ballots, ahead of the coalition of six opposition parties which won 32.55% of the vote. Analysts had predicted a much closer battle.
“Dear friends, we have won an exceptional victory – a victory so great that you can probably see it from the moon, and in any case certainly from Brussels”, declared Viktor Orban in a short speech after the publication of these results. .
Many Hungarians to vote
The ballot was marked by a turnout of 68.7%, a figure close to the record of four years ago. We still have to finish counting the ballots of the big cities, but if this result were to be confirmed, it would mark an increase for Fidesz and its Christian Democrat allies, who had won a total of 49.27% of the votes in the previous election in 2018. Viktor Orban then won a two-thirds majority in Parliament, as in 2010 and 2014.
The full official result will only be known during the week, after the counting of hundreds of thousands of votes from voters from the diaspora as well as expatriates. The Hungarian legislative voting system combines simple majority by constituency and proportional, a system implemented for the first time in 2014 and favoring, according to analysts, Fidesz in power.
During these legislative elections, Viktor Orban found himself facing an unprecedented alliance of six parties. Accused by Brussels of multiple attacks on the rule of law, he muzzled justice and the media over 12 years, while advocating an ultra-conservative vision of society.