US EditionBBC World Service - Newshour, Magyar's Pro-European Party Wins Crucial Majority in Hungary
Tisza won 138 of 199 seats on 53% of the vote, giving Magyar a mandate to form a government after record turnout.
- On Sunday, Hungarian prime minister-elect Peter Magyar defeated Viktor Orban, ending his 16-year tenure. Hungarians handed Magyar's Tisza party a decisive victory with record 79.6 percent turnout.
- Corruption, economic stagnation, and Orban's transformation of Hungary into an "illiberal democracy" fueled the political shift. Voters rejected the nationalist leader who had clashed with the European Union over rule-of-law issues.
- Almost-Complete official results show Tisza securing 138 seats in the 199-seat parliament on 53 percent of the vote. Orban's Fidesz party retained 55 seats on 38 percent, with Orban calling the message "painful but unambiguous."
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the outcome a "heavy defeat" for "right-wing populism," while French President Emmanuel Macron praised it as a victory for the "values of the European Union."
- Magyar pledged to usher in a "new era," urging President Tamas Sulyok to convene parliament. However, he maintains that admitting a country at war to the European Union is "out of the question.
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