Daily Mail: Tens of thousands of Hungarian protesters march through Budapest demanding 'new and fair elections' after anti-immigration PM's victory
* Nationalist PM Victor Orban and his Fidesz party were re-elected last Sunday
* Orban won a super-majority of seats in parliament with only 50 per cent of votes
* Protesters marched through Budapest where opposition parties polled better
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have marched through the Hungarian capital of Budapest, demanding a new election and changes to the electoral system in the biggest opposition rally in years.
The demonstrations came a week after Prime Minister Viktor Orban was re-elected for a fourth term, with his right-wing populist Fidesz party securing a super-majority in the national assembly.
Preliminary results showed that Fidesz and tiny ally the Christian Democratic party won 134 seats in the 199-seat legislature.
Opposition supporters are upset that Hungary's electoral rules have given Mr Orban's party such a large majority in Parliament when it only won around 50 per cent of the vote.
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WNU Editor: These protests are not going to change the election result.
More News On Yesterday's Massive Protest In Budapest Against Orban Election Landslide Last Week
Tens of thousands of Hungarians protest against Orban landslide -- Reuters
'Vik-tator!': Thousands protest Orban government in Hungary -- DW
Hungary: Thousands march in anti-Orban demo in Budapest -- BBC
Thousands of Hungarians Protest in Budapest Against Orban Landslide -- VOA
Thousands in Hungary demand 'new and fair elections' after anti-migrant PM's win -- CBC/AP
100,000 Hungarians march against Viktor Orbán -- Politico
4 comments:
The Left got 20 out of 199 seats or about 10%.
They want to upend the election and disenfranchise 90% of the electorate?
They must be upset that they can't get lucky like the girls of Cologne get lucky, ______.
The losers of elections always protest..lol
Aizino: This recent election was not about parties, or the battle of left-right, but about the force of political opposition. There were actually cooperation between the biggest opposition parties ( about 4-5 ), far-right, liberal and center-left also. They agreed on which candidate could have the biggest chance in their districts against the FIDESZ candidates, and they relied on the voters to cross-voters, to support the best opposition candidates, even if they would not vote for them normally. This had it effect, and taking the 2/3 from FIDESZ was in sight, but at the end they came only close.
What really bothers many is that the opposition was not united enough, there were some, including a party who refused to call back their candidates. It's also kind of funny, that this party's leader lost in her district, by less than 300 votes, out of the submitted 70.000, while in the same district 1500+ people voted for the candidate of the joke party, the "Two tailed dog party" ( MKKP ) who had a chicken candidate ( youtu.be/Uu-ahE4y2KM ). Taking the 2/3 from the majority party could have been done, and this itself would have been a win, but it did not gone that way, and while the protesters chanting "We are the majority", well this is not totally true. The recent protest and also the upcoming ones are cannot really be bounded to a party, left or right but to those who oppose the current system, and this is a bit of a difference.
mlacix,
" The recent protest and also the upcoming ones are cannot really be bounded to a party, left or right but to those who oppose the current system, and this is a bit of a difference."
Very much so. But unless they organize better it will dissipate.
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