Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, has emerged victorious in parliamentary elections held on Sunday.
Orban’s Fidesz-KDNP alliance won 135 of the 199 seats on offer in the country’s legislature. It also won just over 50% of the popular vote.
The United for Hungary alliance, made up of six parties, managed 56 seats.
The only other party to make it into the Hungarian parliament was the right-wing Mi Hazank (Our Homeland) party, which won seven seats.
The last seat in the legislature went to a movement representing ethnic Germans in Hungary.
This is Orban’s fourth consecutive electoral win.
Orban declared his victory a rebuke against the Hungarian left, the international media, bureaucrats in Brussels, as well as the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
A lesson for South Africa will be that the opposition coalition formed to try to unseat Orban failed for a number of reasons, including ideological differences and infighting within the alliance.
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