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Hungary: election triumph for Viktor Orbán is a warning to progressive parties seeking a marriage of convenience with the far right

Hungary’s ultra-conservative prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has preserved his two-thirds super majority in the country’s parliamentary elections. Orbán faced a coalition of six major opposition parties, who made the historic decision to run together under the United for Hungary coalition.

The Conversation

Hungary’s Orban set for tricky term after landslide election win

The Hungarian strongman will have to adjust his government’s outlook, pundits on both sides of the fence say.

Al Jazeera

Orban's ruling party had 'undue advantage' in campaign -OSCE report

Ubiquitous government advertising paid by the state gave Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz party an undue advantage in the run-up to Sunday's vote, which gave Orban a fourth consecutive term in office, the OSCE election monitor said on Monday.

Reuters

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Orban's victory puts Hungary on collision course with EU

Emboldened by a fourth consecutive landslide election victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to dig in against energy sanctions on Russia and toughen his stance in talks with Brussels to unlock frozen EU funds.

Reuters

Viktor Orbán: Hungary's controversial authoritarian prime minister secures yet another term in national election

Having held power continuously since 2010, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is the longest serving prime minister in Europe. Now, as the dust settles on the latest election, he is beginning yet another four-year term.

The Conversation

Hungary's Orban popular at home, isolated abroad after win

As he prepares to continue his autocratic governance of Hungary for another four years, Viktor Orban faces a shattered opposition at home but an increasingly isolated position abroad

The Independent UK

Hungary's Orban wins fourth term with comfortable victory; opposition crushed

Nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a fourth term in office Sunday as his Fidesz party emerged triumphant, official figures showed, after a campaign overshadowed by the war in neighbouring Ukraine.

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Viktor Orban criticises Zelensky following Hungary election triumph

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has won a fifth term in office after claiming victory in the national elections on Sunday night.

Evening Standard

Viktor Orbán wins fourth consecutive term as Hungary’s prime minister

Rightwinger and Putin ally aims dig at Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy after Fidesz party claims another super majority

The Guardian - UK

Orban heads for defiant election win to cement power in Hungary

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is on track to clinch a fourth consecutive term, leveraging a message against being dragged into the war in neighboring Ukraine to reassert himself as the European Union’s longest-serving premier.

Tribune News Service

Hungary election: Victor Orban declares victory with ruling Fidesz party on course to win

Comfortable victory could embolden leader in his ambition to construct an ‘illiberal’ state which critics say amounts to subversion of democratic norms

The Independent UK

Hungarians flock to polls in vote overshadowed by Ukraine war as Orban seeks new term

The party of nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken the lead in partial results from the country's general election on Sunday, the national election office said.

France 24

Voting underway in Hungary in fiercely contested race

Polls opened across Hungary early Sunday as voters in the Central European country faced a stark choice: take a chance on a diverse, westward-looking coalition of opposition parties, or grant nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban a fourth consecutive term.

Radio France Internationale

Hungary votes in general election as Viktor Orbán seeks fourth term

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looms over contest in which opposition coalition aims to dislodge ruling Fidesz party

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Al Jazeera

Polls close in Hungary as Orban seeks a fourth term

Opposition parties unite to challenge Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is hoping to extend his 12-year term.

Radio France Internationale

Hungary's opposition leader rallies voters in last anti-Orban campaign event

Hungary heads to the polls on Sunday to elect its next prime minister. The choice is between incumbent Victor Orban, who controls the media and seems unharmed despite his close relationship with Russia's Vladimir Putin, or Peter Marki-Zay, a dynamic former marketing manager who has united a mosaique of opposition…

The Independent UK

Hungarians head to polls in the shadow of war in Ukraine

Polls opened across Hungary early Sunday as voters in the Central European country were faced with a choice: taking a chance on a diverse, Western-looking coalition of opposition parties, or granting nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban a renewed mandate with a fourth consecutive term in office

Reuters

Orban scores crushing victory as Ukraine war solidifies support

Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban scored a fourth consecutive landslide win in Sunday's election, as voters endorsed his ambition of a conservative, "illiberal" state and shrugged off concerns over Budapest's close ties with Moscow.

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The Independent UK

Opposition vows end to Orban's autocratic rule in Hungary

Opposition parties made their final appeal to Hungarian voters ahead of Sunday's fiercely fought national election

Al Jazeera

Hungary set to vote in key general election

Although Viktor Orban is facing his toughest election since 2010, polls suggest the incumbent will win.

Radio France Internationale

Will Hungarians vote to oust Europe's most illiberal leader?

Sunday's elections in Hungary will decide whether Victor Orban – Vladimir Putin's only EU ally – stays in power, or if opposition candidate Peter Marki-Zay, who managed to get a colourful coalition of six parties together, can break the stranglehold of the incumbent's Fidesz party.

France 24

Hungary’s opposition leader Marki-Zay faces Orban, tough electoral map in key vote

Hungarians vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday with polls giving the edge to incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orban. But for the first time in its 12 years in power, the ruling Fidesz party will face a united opposition coalition led by Peter Marki-Zay.

The Independent UK

Hungary's alliances on the ballot ahead of tight election

As Hungary's nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, seeks a fourth straight term in office, a coalition of opposition parties are framing the Sunday election as a referendum on Hungary's future in the West

Reuters

FACTBOX - What has changed in Hungary during Orban's 12-year rule

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party face their first closely-contested election on April 3 after three consecutive landslide victories since 2010.

Reuters

Orban's dream of two decades in power hangs in the balance in Hungarian ballot

After his third consecutive landslide victory in 2018, Hungary's Viktor Orban said his strong new mandate allowed him to plan for 12 years ahead, aiming for an unbroken two-decade spell in power in the former communist Central European country.

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