BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s next prime minister Viktor Orban said yesterday voters had carried out a “revolution” by giving his party two thirds of the seats in parliament to rebuild Hungary after a near financial collapse.
With nearly all second round votes counted, centre-right Fidesz had won 263 seats, above the 258 needed for the two-thirds majority, ousting the Socialists after eight years and securing a mandate to enact reforms and revive the economy.
“Revolution happened today in the polling booths,” Orban told some 4,000 cheering supporters in downtown Budapest.