In a rare parliamentary defeat for Orban, his proposed constitutional amendment won only 131 votes in the 199-seat parliament, just short of the necessary two-thirds majority of 133. The far-right Jobbik party sealed the bill’s rejection by boycotting the vote. “This vote today is a temporary fiasco (for Orban), similarly to the referendum which was invalid,” said Robert Laszlo, a political analyst at thinktank Political Capital. Laszlo said at home, the failure of the amendment was unlikely to weaken Orban, whose party enjoys a strong lead in opinion polls ahead of 2018 elections. During the vote, Jobbik MPs held up a large banner that said: “Those are the traitors who let in terrorists in exchange for money.”

Source: Hindustan Times November 08, 2016 14:25 UTC