Viktor Orban declares winner of Hungary election – VG

Viktor Orban declares winner of Hungary election – VG
Primary leadership: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban leads elections in Hungary.

The current Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he won the elections in Hungary.

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It’s Reuters reports.

The agency reported that opposition leader Peter Markie Zay admitted losing the election.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban comfortably took the lead after the first election results began to emerge.

Preliminary results show Orban’s party won 135 out of 199 seats in parliament, while the six-party opposition coalition has so far won 57 seats.

The statistics appear on Sunday evening, according to Reuters. At around 11 p.m., more than 70 percent of the votes had been counted, the agency said.

The election was previously expected to be the largest in many years, after the opposition managed to rally from left to right in a six-party bloc.

Opposition: Supporters of opposition candidate Peter Markie G. get the first results of the elections.

Prime Ministerial candidate and anti-Urban candidate, Peter Markie Zay, is not partisan but is described as a conservative politician.

After casting his vote on Sunday, he urged the Hungarian people to exercise their right to vote, accusing the current government of corruption.

“Although there is no democracy and free elections in Hungary today, we still have a chance to overthrow the most corrupt government in the history of Hungary,” said Marky Zay. Hungary today.

Close ties with Russia

As in the rest of Europe, the war in Ukraine received great attention in Hungary, commenting on the elections.

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The rest of the West has turned its back on Putin, but Orban wants to preserve relations with Moscow.

Just weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine met him Putin to discuss the escalating tension.

Close ties: Orban will continue to have a close relationship with Russia and President Vladimir Putin.

When the war broke out in Ukraine, Urban did not directly mention Russia at first, but he came gradually Also with criticism of the Russian president.

Hungary is a member of NATO and the European Union, and therefore contributes troops along the Ukrainian border and sanctions against Russia.

But the prime minister will not take measures that could hit Hungary financially.

Fear of election fraud

In the run-up to the elections, there were reports of ballot paper misrepresentation.

A bag full of partially burned ballot papers was said to have been found in Transylvania near an illegal dump, according to Hungary today.

Support: The Hungarian flag is waving in the wind as Orbán’s supporters gather to hear him speak on election night.

It is said that all the burning ballot papers, from Hungarians with voting rights and living in Romania, were supporting the opposition parties.

Orban denied that there was fraud in the elections.

– That’s a fair choice. “Everyone had the opportunity to impress voters,” Orban told reporters on Sunday. Watchman.

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