“Voters ousted yesterday a political and economic system we”ve got to build another. Will present first a tax reform plan, another to bring down the state bureaucracy and a third for local governments,” said Orban, at its first conference reporters after the victory.
The new parliament out of yesterday”s vote shall be convened by the President on May 17 and Orban, former prime minister between 1998 and 2002, be elected mayor in the first session.
Fidesz won a historic two-thirds majority in the future Hungarian parliament, in the second round of elections because of the 57 disputed mandates won 53 and totaled 263 about 386 seats in parliament in Budapest.
In the first round, on April 11, Fidesz had won 52.7 percent of the vote, also a record.
Socialists, in power until now for eight years, had obtained in the first round 19.3 percent, finishing in second place. With the round on Sunday, reaching 59 seats in parliament.
The far right party Jobbik, which had gained 16.7 percent in the first round, won with the results of Wednesday 48 seats. The group based their campaign speeches xenophobic and anti-market economy.
The fourth force is the Green Party Diversa Policy (LMP), which mandates Conquest 16 (7.5 percent the first turn) and made his debut in parliament.
This means exceptional constitutional powers, unprecedented in the history of democratic Hungary since 1989, when the communist regime fell, the news agency reported ANSA.
The European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, congratulated the new head of the Hungarian government for the victory. “We count on your support,” he said in a statement released in Brussels today.
Orban Barroso stressed that takes office in a “decisive moment” in which Europe should seek to overcome the crisis economic. (Telam).
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