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Socialists in Hungary Are Ousted in Elections
By DAN BILEFSKY
Published: April 25, 2010
PRAGUE — Hungary’s
center-right Fidesz party secured a two-thirds majority in second-round
parliamentary elections on Sunday, ousting the governing Socialist
Party and giving it the authority to pass legislation, including
crucial economic changes, without having to form alliances with the
opposition.
With nearly all the votes counted, the Fidesz party, led by Viktor Orban,
who promised to restore “law and order” and pull Hungary from
recession, won 263 of the 386 seats in Parliament, followed by 59 seats
for the Socialists and 47 seats for the far-right Jobbik party. The
Jobbiks have drawn international scorn for what some critics call
barely veiled anti-Semitism and language against the country’s large
Roma population.
“The new government’s strong majority means they won’t have to
negotiate with Jobbik and can seek to weaken their influence,” said
Attila Gyulai, managing director of the Political Capital Institute
in Budapest, a research and consulting firm. “Jobbik will likely
respond by speaking louder and in a more spectacular way, but in policy
terms, they will be outnumbered.”
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