Orban wins landslide general election victory after narrow poll lead

Orban wins landslide general election victory after narrow poll lead

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has won a landslide victory in his country’s general election.

Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party have so far amassed 53.1 per cent of votes with 98 per cent counted as of this morning.

Peter Marki-Zay’s United for Hungary opposition alliance is far behind at around 35 per cent.

In the lead up to this week’s vote, opinion polls gave Fidesz and its partners just a narrow lead over the six-party opposition grouping.

Giving his victory address earlier today, Orban hit out at bureaucrats in Brussels and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, referring to them as “opponents”.

“They will remember this victory until the end of our lives because we had to fight against a huge amount of opponents: The left at home, the international left, the bureaucrats in Brussels, the money of the Soros empire, the international media and even the Ukrainian president in the end,” Orban said.

Zelensky has criticised the Hungarian government’s ban on arms transfers to Ukraine. Hungary has also condemned energy sanctions on Russia. However, Orban has condemned the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and has so far accepted half a million refugees from the conflict.

“This isn’t our war, we have to stay out of it,” Orban has also said of the conflict.

Orban said his “huge victory” could be seen “from the Moon, but certainly from Brussels as well”.

“We won the best when everyone came together against us,” he said, arguing that: “Huge international power centers and organizations have moved against us, and they too have to say something: Every penny they gave to the Hungarian left was a waste of money.”

Fidesz is set to have a two-thirds majority (135 seats), versus the opposition alliance’s 56.

When officially ratified, the results will mark Fidesz’ fourth successive electoral win since 2010.

Over in Serbia, incumbent president Aleksandar Vučić also won a general election, vowing to maintain neutrality on the question of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.