Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared a resounding victory for his Fidesz-led conservative alliance on Sunday after getting re-elected for another four years by the Hungarian voters. According to the National Election Office’s preliminary results, based on a count of over 98.97% of the votes, Fidesz-KDNP won 44.54% of the vote, giving the incumbent party a projected 133 seats, in a Parliament of 199 seats.

Prime Minister Orbán, who is the first Hungarian prime minister to win two elections in a row, thanked voters for casting their ballot. He emphasised that voters "said no to hatred or quitting the European Union” and that the vote underlined "Hungary has a place in the EU". He pointed out that the outcome of the election endorsed the Government's policies of job-creation and supporting families. "A new and magnificent era is ahead of us; I invite the citizens of Hungary to enter that era together" with the view of making Hungary a "great and successful" country, he stated. "Fidesz has won a sweeping victory, the significance of which cannot even be estimated as yet," the Hungarian Prime Minister underlined. "Hungary is now the most united nation in Europe," he declared.

European People's Party President Joseph Daul and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso congratulated the Prime Minister. Mr Daul said the Hungarian nation had renewed its confidence in Viktor Orbán, who always told it the truth and carried out brave reforms, putting the economy back on its feet. Mr Daul also expressed the conviction that Fidesz would also triumph in the European parliamentary elections.

The final turnout was 61.9%, slightly lower than in the first round of the 2010 ballot. The count of around 120,000 votes cast in missions abroad and by citizens, who lodged their ballots in districts other than their home one, will be completed next Saturday. During the course of the election, monitors from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said they were satisfied with the voting process.

(Prime Minister's Office)