Parliamentary elections have started in Hungary. Prime Minister Viktor Orban cast his vote together with his wife at a polling station in Budapest on Sunday morning.
Hungary elects a new parliament. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party is facing a unified opposition for the first time in twelve years.
The opposition’s conservative lead candidate, Peter Marki-Zay, leads a broad alliance ranging from the right-wing Jobbik party to the Liberals, the Greens and the Social Democrats. The common goal is to oust the longest-serving Hungarian prime minister to date.
Before the elections in Hungary, many were undecided
For the first time, around 200 election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will monitor the ballot, which is highly unusual for an election in an EU country. Orban has, in the eyes of many critics, transformed the country into an increasingly authoritarian one, including creating an electoral system that benefits his party.
Nevertheless, the outcome of the election is uncertain, also because of the war in neighboring Ukraine – half a million eligible voters were still undecided in polls just a few days before the vote.
Source: Stern
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