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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: The Village Idiot on April 25, 2010, 05:37:57 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8642456.stm
Hungary's conservative opposition party Fidesz has won a two-thirds general election victory, second round results have confirmed.
With 99.22% of votes counted, the party had nearly 68% of the popular vote and 263 of the 386 seats in parliament, the national election committee said.
Almost a third of the seats were left to be decided on Sunday following the first round two weeks ago.
Fidesz promised to create jobs, lower taxes and reduce bureaucracy.
The ruling Socialists were in second place on 15% (59 seats), the far-right Jobbik had 12% (47 seats) and a new Green party called Politics Can be Different had 4.1% (16 seats).
One seat went to an independent.
Fidesz leader Viktor Orban is set to become prime minister. Mr Orban welcomed the result, saying he would rule "with humility".
He told supporters: "We saw a revolution in the polling stations."
The entire leadership of the Socialist party, who had governed for the past eight years, tendered its resignation after the results were revealed.
The second round of the election was fought in 57 constituencies where no single candidate had won more than 50% of the vote in the first round.