Orban Suffers Crushing Defeat in Hungarian Elections. Opposition Gains Constitutional Majority in Parliament
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary. The main intrigue was whether Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party would hold on. In reality, he faced failure.
Voter turnout in the elections was a record high in the country's history, exceeding 77%.
Based on the counting of 92% of votes, the pro-European "Tisza" party can count on a constitutional majority — 69.3% of seats in parliament.
Before our eyes, the most pro-Russian and simultaneously Trumpist force in the European Union is suffering a crushing defeat. Orban himself turned these elections into a de facto referendum on Hungary's civilizational choice and its future in the EU, and Orban lost it decisively.
Neither the visit of the US Vice President nor Trump's appeals helped him.
For Belarusians, it is significant that Orban was the mouthpiece of a trend in the West that called for sacrificing Ukraine's (and thus Belarus's) independence for the sake of gaining benefits from Moscow, a trend that proposed trading Ukraine for Moscow's favor and cheap Russian energy resources. And this trend has lost. Ukrainians can breathe a sigh of relief. But no less important is that these elections showed the limited influence Moscow and Washington have on European affairs.
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