After counting 98.5 percent of the votes, the Tisza Péter Magyar opposition party is the sure winner of Sunday’s Hungarian parliamentary elections, which won a constitutional majority in the parliament. After 16 years, the era of the government of the Fidesz party of the acting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is ending in Hungary, reports TASR.
- The opposition party Tisza won a constitutional majority in the Hungarian parliamentary elections.
- The Tisza party will take 138 out of 199 seats, Fidesz will get only 55 mandates.
- Viktor Orbán acknowledged the defeat and congratulated the winner Péter Magyar by phone.
- Voter turnout reached a record 77.80 percent, favoring the Tisza party.
- The formation of Péter Magyar’s government was greeted with congratulations by the leaders of the European Union and NATO.
The almost final voting results show that the Tisza party will have 138 out of 199 seats in the parliament (69.35 percent), while Fidesz will have 55 (27.64 percent) and the ultra-right movement Naša vlast (Mi Hazánk Mozgalom) six mandates (3.02 percent), the server 24.hu reports.
Orbán acknowledged his electoral defeat shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday and congratulated Péter Magyar by phone, who thanked his supporters for their support in a speech at Batthyány Square in Budapest. “We did it… Together we brought down Orbán’s regime – together,” Magyar said, adding: “We have liberated Hungary; we have reclaimed our homeland”.
In his speech, Magyar also called on Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok to entrust him with the formation of a new government and subsequently resign from his position. Polling stations in Hungary closed at 7:00 p.m. Voting was mostly peaceful. Voter turnout was a record, reaching 77.80 percent half an hour before the end of the election. which represents a total of 5,856,515 voters. This is the highest turnout recorded in the country since the regime change in 1989. Fidesz officials initially claimed that such a high turnout would be an advantage for their party, but in the end, on the contrary, it led to the victory of the Tisza party.
She congratulated Magyar on his electoral victory head of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen, as well as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macronhead of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) Mark Rutte, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
After the publication of the election results, which show a clear victory for Péter Magyar’s party, tumultuous celebrations of Tisza’s followers broke out in the streets of the capital city of Budapest, writes the 24.hu server.
