(3 Apr 2022)
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Budapest – 3 April 2022
1. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban greeting crowd
2. Supporters
3. Crowd
4. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
"This victory will also be remembered for the rest of our lives, perhaps, because we had to fight the biggest overwhelming force: the left at home, the international left all around, the Brussels bureaucrats, the (George) Soros empire with all its money, the international mainstream media, and in the end even the Ukrainian president."
5. Crowd ++UPSOUND: Crowd chanting "Viktor, Viktor"++
6. Orban and members of his government ++UPSOUND: Crowd chanting "Ria, ria, Hungaria"++
7. Cheering crowd ++UPSOUND: Crowd chanting: "Ria, ria, Hungaria"++
8. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
"The whole world has seen tonight in Budapest that Christian democratic politics, conservative civic politics and patriotic politics have won. We are telling Europe that this is not the past, this is the future. This will be our common European future."
9. Crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
"God above us all, Hungary first, go Hungary, go Hungarians!"
11. Wide of Orban waving to the crowd
STORYLINE:
Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared victory in Sunday's national elections, claiming a mandate for a fourth term as a still incomplete vote count showed a strong lead for his right-wing party.
In a 10-minute speech to Fidesz party officials and supporters at an election night event in Budapest, Orban addressed a crowd cheering “Viktor”.
While votes were still being tallied, it appeared clear that the question was not whether Orban’s Fidesz party would take the election, but by how much.
With around 91% of votes tallied, Orban’s Fidesz-led coalition had won 53%, while a pro-European opposition coalition, United for Hungary, had just over 34%, according to the National Election Office.
It appeared possible that Fidesz would win another constitutional majority, allowing it to continue making deep unilateral changes to the Central European nation.
“The whole world has seen tonight in Budapest that Christian democratic politics, conservative civic politics and patriotic politics have won. We are telling Europe that this is not the past, this is the future,” Orban said.
The contest had been expected to be the closest since Orban took power in 2010, thanks to Hungary’s six main opposition parties putting aside their ideological differences to form a united front against Fidesz. Voters were electing lawmakers to the country’s 199-seat parliament.
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