Hungary's Viktor Orbán secures another term with resounding win
Orbán and his Fidesz party projected to take 133 seats with 93% of votes counted, after a heavily anti-migration campaign
Shaun Walker in Budapest
Sun 8 Apr 2018 23.55 BST
Hungary’s anti-migration prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has secured a third consecutive term in office after his Fidesz party won a resounding victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
After running a campaign almost exclusively focused on the apparent threat posed by migration, Orbán’s Fidesz will have a majority in parliament and may even regain a two-thirds “supermajority” which allows constitutional changes.
With around 93% of votes counted, Fidesz was projected to take 133 of the parliament’s 199 seats, the minimum required for the supermajority.
Orbán appeared shortly before midnight to claim victory in front of a cheering crowd outside the Fidesz election headquarters on the Danube in Budapest.
“We won,” Orbán said. “We gave ourselves a chance to protect Hungary.”
Second place in the vote went to Jobbik, the far-right party that has attempted to rebrand itself as an anti-corruption centrist force. The party is set to win just 26 seats, and its leader, Gábor Vona, said he would resign.
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