{"id":251794,"date":"2022-04-04T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T07:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251794"},"modified":"2022-04-05T06:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:58:18","slug":"viktor-orban-wins-fourth-consecutive-term-as-hungarys-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251794","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Orb\u00e1n wins fourth consecutive term as Hungary\u2019s prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Tait and Flora Garamvolgyi \u2014 The Guardian April 4, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Viktor Orb\u00e1n has won a fourth successive term as Hungary\u2019s prime minister, capping a campaign dominated by his controversial stance on Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine with a speech that appeared to mock Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian leader.<\/p>\n

Ecstatic chants of \u201cViktor, Viktor\u201d greeted Orb\u00e1n as he addressed supporters of his Fidesz party outside its election headquarters on the banks of the Danube in Budapest as results made the scale of his victory apparent.<\/p>\n

With nearly 86% of the vote counted on Sunday night, Fidesz was on course to increase its parliamentary majority by winning 135 seats in the 199-member parliament, crushing a six-party opposition bloc that united to form a common front aimed at unseating Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

Instead, the ruling party has retained its two-thirds super majority, which has enabled it to reshape Hungarian politics and social policy during its 12 years in power.<\/p>\n

The popular vote margin was 53.7% for Fidesz to 34.4% for the United for Hungary<\/a> opposition grouping, fronted by P\u00e9ter M\u00e1rki-Zay, who conceded defeat on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire world can see that our brand of Christian democratic, conservative, patriotic politics has won,\u201d a smiling, swaggering Orb\u00e1n \u2013 with members of his cabinet behind him \u2013 told the crowd, standing in frigid temperatures. \u201cWe are sending Europe<\/a> a message that this is not the past \u2013 this is the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n also made reference to criticism directed at him by Zelenskiy, who has repeatedly challenged the Hungarian leader over a perceived lack of support and an unwillingness to condemn his close ally Vladimir Putin in person for the invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis victory is one to remember, maybe even for the rest of our lives, because we had the biggest [range of opponents to] overpower. 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,\u201d he said to laughter from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hungarian Prime Minister Orban has pointedly refused to condemn President Putin for his action in Ukraine but he did name Zelensky, Soros and Brussels\u2019 bureaucrats as \u2018opponents\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251796,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251794\/revisions\/251796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}