Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orban declares victory in elections after a campaign dominated by the war in neighboring Ukraine.
Orban's Fidesz party had a commanding lead with 71% of the votes counted, Hungary's national elections board said on Sunday evening.The election campaign was dominated by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, which put Orban's lengthy association with Russian President Vladimir Putin under scrutiny. In his victory speech, Orban called Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky one of the"opponents" he had to overcome during the campaign.
Last month, Europe's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights , recommended a full-scale international monitoring operation of the April 3 poll -- a rare move for an EU state -- after assessing claims of"a general deterioration of the conditions for democratic elections.""The whole world could see this evening in Budapest that the Christian Democrat politics, the conservative politics and the nationalistic politics won," Orban said on Sunday night.
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