(Ansa) – The Hungarian premier Viktor Orban won a landslide election in Hungary, winning his third consecutive term since 2010 in a vote that saw a record turnout in the country. The Fidesz government party, according to the results released when the count was now over 80%, retains the absolute majority in parliament with 49% of the votes. Second is the party Jobbik with 20%, third thesocialist-green alliance with 12%. Throughout the day there were long queues in front of polling stations, a turnout never seen in the country. A large participation that had led analysts to hypothesize the possibility of a good affirmation of the oppositions that could have caused Fidesz to lose its absolute majority. Which hasn't happened.
Until the polls closed at 19 pm, around 5,5 million voters went to the polls, 70%, against a turnout of 61,73% in 2014. Around 1547 candidates were vying for the 199 seats in parliament. Fidesz and its ally the Christian Democratic Party reportedly won 133. Second place in the elections went to Jobbik by Gabor Vona, a nationalist conservative party, but no longer Eurosceptic, which had promised a fight against the generalized corruption attributed to Orban. Following the socialist-green alliance (Mszp-P) and other political formations.
The victory – were the first words of Orban who celebrated the result with his supporters – is an opportunity “to defend Hungary. We will defend the motherland." What rewarded him, according to observers, was above all the hammering that went on for months, also through the public media controlled by him, about the "mortal danger" that is allegedly threatening the Hungarians: the arrival of thousands of Muslim migrants, with the relocation compulsory wanted by the EU. "We have to decide well, because if we make a mistake there will be no way to fix it, we risk losing our country, which will become a country of immigrants", he said again on election day. A message that has evidently garnered the favor of the electorate.
