A triumph beyond expectations is looming for the Conservative Party which could have two thirds of the seats. And it scares Europe
Of Luca Romano
“We won”. With these words the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban he began to celebrate in front of his crowd what seems like a triumph that goes beyond the expectations of the day before.
“Thank you for trusting us, for joining us”, he added, quoted by the Guardian. “This is a decisive victory in the future we will be able to defend our homeland”, he added.
A triumph beyond expectations is looming for Fidesz, the conservative party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (Fidesz). According to the partial results of the legislative elections, with the 75% of the votes counted, Fidesz would conquer 134 seats, which means not only the certainty of an absolute majority, but also the possibility of reaching a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly, the unicameral Parliament composed of 199 members.
An excessive power that was also unimaginable on the eve, indeed analysts had even questioned the certainty of the absolute majority. In the 2011 the majority of more than two thirds allowed Orban to amend the Constitution by halving the number of parliamentarians.
Hungarians went to the polls en masse. All 18.30 the turnout was 68,1%, nine points above the figure of 2014, and almost three hours after the official closing some polling stations were still open to clear the queues and allow everyone to vote. Orban clashed with the EU institutions for his no to the refugee redistribution program and for his attitude considered illiberal towards civil society, enough to earn him the nickname 'Viktator', while he garnered praise from other nationalist politicians and the far right, who look to him as a source of inspiration.
His electoral campaign focused in particular on the fight against immigration, with the attacks on the American billionaire of Hungarian origins George Soros and the organizations he finances, accused of promoting mass Muslim and African immigration into Europe to undermine their Christian identity. He was the main defender of the closure of European borders and of a wall with which to protect them from the entry of migrants. In the 2013 he had been the promoter of a constitutional reform that had affected the principles of the rule of law and in 2015 proposed reintroducing the death penalty; in the fourth term he would like to deliver “irreversible” the changes promoted. Orban began his political career in 1989, a 26 years, as an anti-communist student leader. He attended Oxford University thanks to a scholarship subsidized by Soros and founded in 1988 the Alliance of Young Democrats movement(Fidesz). He became prime minister ten years later, In the 2010 he was re-elected with a strong majority in Hungary marked by the economic crisis and scandals linked to the previous liberal government. In the 2012 Demonstrations explode against his executive for his positions on abortion, gay marriage and civil rights, In the 2014 he is re-elected and the protests are repeated: Orban is accused of being corrupt and wanting to limit freedom of expression. Instead it finds support in the international extreme right, is getting closer to Putin, to Salvini, Marine Le Pen and the German AfD. It is not surprising that in Brussels the attention on the result of the vote is maximum.
Source: http://m.ilgiornale.it/news/2018/04/08/ungheria-orban-stravince/1513620/