In the Hungarian parliamentary election, the ruling political party alliance Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Alliance has reached a landslide victory. Announcing his fourth election win, Hungary’s long-time prime minister Viktor Orbán has listed his opponents, including the head of neighbouring Ukraine, British broadcaster BBC reports.
According to the preliminary results of the April 3 election of the 199 members of the Hungarian National Assembly, Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Alliance had 53.1% of votes with 98% counted.
«Now, we have to battle the biggest powers,» Orbán stated. «The left-wing at home, the international left-wing, Brussels’ bureaucrats, all the organisations of the Soros empire, the international media and the Ukrainian President.»
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The Hungarian prime minister, one of the closest allies of Vladimir Putin’s Russia in the EU, has been criticised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the ban on the transfer of arms to Ukraine, with which it shares a border.
In the election, a distant second came the opposition alliance of six political parties United for Hungary with 35% of votes and the right-wing party Our Homeland Movement, led by László Toroczkai, with 6.2%.
Orbán wins Hungarian parliamentary election, calls Zelenenskyy his opponent
