Orbán steps back after a landslide loss, vowing to rebuild Hungary’s ‘national side’
The outgoing prime minister said he will focus on rebuilding Fidesz after the party lost 83 seats and a two-thirds parliamentary majority.
- Viktor Orbán said he will not take a parliamentary seat after losing the recent election.
- The vote ended his 16-year rule, with victory going to Péter Magyar and his Tisza Party.
- The new government holds a two-thirds majority, enabling it to reverse many of Orbán’s policies.
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After his defeat, Viktor Orbán, Hungary's long-time head of government, surprisingly renounces his parliamentary mandate. At the same time, reports are circulating about a potentially explosive US trip.
After the election debacle, Hungary's long-time head of government announces that he will not accept his mandate in the new parliament. He wants to focus on the repositioning of his party, he says.
Orbán to Step Aside from Hungarian Parliament
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán announced he will not take up his seat in parliament following a landslide election defeat that ended his 16-year rule, signalling a shift toward reorganising his political movement. In a video statement Orbán spelled out how he was now needed not in parliament, but in the reorganisation of the patriotic movement. Adding that the mandate he had obtained “is, in fact, a parliamentary mandate of Fidesz,” he s…
In the parliamentary election in Hungary two weeks ago he experienced a debacle. As a "simple" MP, the outgoing Prime Minister does not want to follow the policy of the future government.
The former Hungarian Prime Minister, who was elected, does not want to fulfil his mandate as a Member of Parliament. He wants to focus on the repositioning of his party, he says.
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