Péter Márki-Zay, the prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition, on Sunday evening conceded victory in the general election to Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party. “I am stunned just like everyone else,” Márki-Zay said at the City Park Ice Rink in Budapest. “I don’t want to hide my disappointment and my sadness; we would never have […]
Hungary’s Fidesz-led alliance, which has held office for the past twelve years, won a fourth successive term in Sunday’s election amid a high turnout of 69.49%, and was on course to win 135 seats in the 199-seat parliament, keeping its two-thirds majority.
We have won a huge victory, said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the president of Fidesz, late last night at the government parties’ results-waiting event in Budapest.
Voters in Sunday’s election will not only pass judgement on the Orbán government’s past twelve years but decide whether Hungary belongs to the West or East, opposition LMP co-leader Erzsébet Schmuck said on Friday.
So far, 184,000 Hungarian citizens without permanent residency in Hungary have posted mail-in votes or lodged them with Hungarian embassies ahead of Hungary’s general election, the National Election Office (NVI) said.
Between March 21 and 27, over 27,000 people saw their doctors with flu-like symptoms, 9% more than during the previous week, the National Public Health Centre (NNK) said on its website on Friday.
Altogether 40 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the past 24 hours, while 2,327 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Friday.
In the next few hours we can expect more precipitation, which will be rain at first, and later snow in the mountains.
In a scandalous case, it shook the mood yesterday in Transylvania and, of course, here in Hungary as well: discarded, partially burned-out letters of opposition were found near Târgu Mureş.
This war is not our war, we cannot win here, but we can lose everything, “the question of whether the economy works or not works here,” stressed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Kossuth Radio Good Morning, Hungary on Friday morning!.
