US EditionOrbán’s Fidesz Wins Crucial By-Election Ahead of April Parliamentary Vote
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Fidesz-KDNP won a spectacular victory in Balmazújváros.
Orbán’s Fidesz Wins Crucial By-Election Ahead of April Parliamentary Vote
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party secured a convincing victory in a local by-election framed as a prelude to the upcoming and much-awaited parliamentary contest between the governing party and the opposition Tisza, led by Fidesz defector Péter Magyar. The victory of the Fidesz–KDNP candidate Zoltán Nagy in Balmazújváros, a town in Hajdú–Bihar County with around 17,000 residents, also has the potential to end months of politica…
With the victory of Zoltán Nagy, Fidesz gained a majority in the city.
According to the final, non-final result, Zoltán Nagy of Fidesz won the Balmazújváros by-election. He won the 7th individual constituency seat with 47.09 percent, or 397 votes, while his opponent, the candidate of the Together for Balmazújváros Association, Péter Molnár, received 369 votes (43.77 percent). There was a third candidate, the independent Erzsébet Béresné Lőrincz, who received 77 votes (9.13 percent). The election had to be called be…
The Prime Minister shared the news by saying that "spring is coming."
Telex's left-liberal readers are already preparing for the Tisza Party's April election defeat.
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