HUNGARY: POLITICS - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declares parliamentary election victory

Record ID: 565253

  • Title: HUNGARY: POLITICS - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declares parliamentary election victory
  • Date: 6th April 2014
  • Summary: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (APRIL 6, 2014) (REUTERS) **CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY** HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN WALKING TOWARD STAGE AHEAD OF ELECTION VICTORY SPEECH / AUDIENCE CHEERING AND CLAPPING SUPPORTERS CHEERING, CLAPPING, WAVING FLAGS AND SHOUTING "VIKTOR, VIKTOR" ORBAN AND SUPPORTERS ON STAGE PEOPLE CLAPPING AND SHOUTING "VIKTOR, VIKTOR" (SOUNDBITE) (Hungarian) HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER, VIKTOR ORBAN, SAYING: "My ladies and gentlemen, with due humility and dignity that suits us we can say that all doubts and uncertainties have disappeared: we won." VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CHEERING AND CLAPPING (SOUNDBITE) (Hungarian) HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER, VIKTOR ORBAN, SAYING: "This was not just any odd victory. We have scored such a comprehensive victory, the significance of which we cannot yet fully grasp tonight." VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CHEERING
  • Embargoed: 21st April 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA83BR4773OOF5GP7YDYIYQW6HL
  • Story Text: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared victory in elections on Sunday (April 6), saying the vote showed that Hungary was the most united nation in Europe.
    Orban said the result was a confirmation of his government's policies to create jobs, support families and fight for national sovereignty.

    "My ladies and gentlemen, with due humility and dignity that suits us we can say that all doubts and uncertainties have disappeared: we won," Orban said as supporters cheered.

    "This was not just any odd victory. We have scored such a comprehensive victory, the significance of which we cannot yet fully grasp tonight," the premier said, adding also that by voting him Hungarians had said no to hatred and no to leaving the European Union.
    Orban has clashed repeatedly with the EU and foreign investors over his maverick policies, and after Sunday's win, big businesses were bracing for another term of unpredictable and, for some of them, hostile measures.
    But many Hungarians see Orban, a 50-year-old former dissident against Communist rule, as a champion of national interests. They also like the fact that under his government personal income tax and household power bills have fallen.
    After 71 percent of the ballots were counted, election officials projected Orban's Fidesz party would win 135 of the 199 seats in parliament - passing the two-thirds threshold needed for his party to unilaterally change the constitution.
    The same projection gave the Socialist-led leftist alliance 39 seats, while Jobbik would take 25 seats.
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