Viktor Orban celebrates his re-election, which will strengthen his hand in negotiations with the EU Bernadett Szabo/ReutersThe hardline populist prime minister of Hungary celebrated a landslide third consecutive term last night, sounding alarm bells in Brussels. Viktor Orban was on course to regain the two-thirds parliamentary “supermajority” he won in 2010 and 2014 after he campaigned against the European Union’s ambition to settle migrants and increase the pace of integration of member states. The majority would give the prime minister, 54, carte blanche to alter Hungary’s constitution, making it almost impossible for the fragmented opposition to topple him. “We have won,” Mr Orban told cheering supporters in Budapest as results were published. The 69 per cent turnout, higher than the two previous elections “has cast aside all doubts”, he added.

Source: The Times April 08, 2018 23:03 UTC