Péter Magyar’s conservative Tisza party, winner of the general elections in Hungary last Sunday, April 12, increased its supermajority in parliament by gaining three more seats after the recount of postal votes, votes from foreign missions, and transferred votes, as reported by the National Election Office.
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Thus, it will have 141 seats out of a total of 199 in the Hungarian Parliament. On election night, with his overwhelming victory over ultranationalist Viktor Orbán, Magyar’s party had already achieved a two-thirds majority with an initial projection of 138 seats, now surpassed.
“An unprecedented majority, an unprecedented mandate, and at the same time, a great responsibility,” Magyar declared in a statement about the final result. According to official data, Tisza received 53.18% of the votes compared to Fidesz, Orbán’s party, which had 38.6%, giving it 52 deputies. The far-right party Mi Hazánk obtained 5.6% and will have six parliamentarians.
The Parliament resulting from the elections will be constituted in one of the first days of May, and Magyar aspires to be invested as prime minister along with his Government on that same day. He wants the session to be held on a weekend, Saturday the 9th, so that more people can attend the event he is preparing in Kossuth Square in front of the Parliament, to celebrate the new era and the end of Orbán’s 16 consecutive years of government.
His first measure will be to launch a broad anti-corruption campaign for Brussels to release the funds for Hungary that are blocked due to the erosion of the rule of law during the Orbán era. This Sunday, a delegation from the future Hungarian Government met in Brussels with representatives of the European Commission on this issue. This amounts to almost 18 billion euros, of which 9.6 billion are part of the post-pandemic recovery fund that countries can only apply for, subject to compliance with agreed reforms, until the end of August this year.
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