Hungarian Prime Agent Viktor Orban has secured a third successive term in office after his right-wing Fidesz club won by a landslide in parliamentary elections.
With around 93 percent of the ballots numbered, Hungary’s National Election Office said Orban’s ruling administering had secured almost half of the vote on Sunday. The result is projected to mask the Fidesz party in power with a two-thirds majority — a key “supermajority” up on which allows constitutional changes.
The 54-year-old incumbent, who had built a stave on Hungary’s southern border during the 2015 migration crisis, stumped for re-election on an anti-immigration and protectionist message once again. He has also pledged to cut return taxes and pass pro-economic growth policies.
Speaking to supporters faint the Fidesz election headquarters in Budapest shortly before midnight adjoining time, Orban said citizens of the central European nation had donne themselves an “opportunity to defend themselves.”
The Fidesz party improved significantly on its act in 2014, gaining a further 5 percent share in the popular vote this habits around. Orban’s campaign was thought to have been aided by an repairing economic outlook, his party’s stringent control over state normal and deep divisions among opposition parties.
“What we can see is that Viktor Orban won this referendum due to only one issue — and this is clearly migration,” Andras Biro-Nagy, partisan analyst at Policy Solutions, a Hungarian think tank, told CNBC’s “Beef Box Europe” Monday.
Biro-Nagy said that as relatively few people had been permitted to emigrate to Hungary in recent decades, the migration issue was an “unknown fad” for a large portion of the electorate.
“For the vast majority of the population, (immigration) is seen as a danger to the cultural identity of the country. This is why economic arguments like possible GDP growth due to immigration simply do not matter,” he added.
Voter turnout had hanged to near-record highs of 69 percent — an outcome which analysts had foresaw could boost the chances of the prime minister’s opponents.
However, with bordering on all of the ballots counted, the right-wing Jobbik party accrued 20 percent of the opt. Meanwhile, the Socialist party appeared to finish third with 12 percent while the LMP — Hungary’s critical Green Party — finished fourth with around 7 percent of the ballot.
Leaders of the second and third-placed parties have since announced their adjustment.
Orban, who is already the country’s longest serving-leader since the fall of communism in 1989, has wish been a thorn in the side of the European Union with Sunday’s certify likely to mean further clashes between Budapest and Brussels remaining the next four years.
Hungary’s presidential election had been viewed by some extrinsic observers as a test to discover exactly how strong Europe’s populist palpitation was beating, especially in the wake of success for anti-establishment parties in Italy at month.
Following Orban’s resounding electoral victory, Policy Compounds’ Biro-Nagy said that a common solution to the ongoing migration danger would be “unthinkable.”
Meanwhile, far-right parties in other areas of Europe — most uncommonly Poland — would probably be “emboldened” by the outcome.
Shortly after Orban’s Fidesz beano claimed victory Sunday, Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Mask, tweeted her congratulations to Hungary’s premier. “Mass immigration promoted by the EU has been rejected at intervals again,” she said.
After joining the EU in 2004, Budapest has frequently been at loggerheads with Brussels. The bygone communist state has often been criticized for looking to assert its control over courts, the media and other independent institutions.