Hungarian leader Orban concedes loss in landslide election
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat to Peter Magyar in Sunday’s parliamentary election.
Magyar’s Tisza party was on course to win 68% of seats compared with 29% for Orban’s Fidesz, according to the Election Office in Budapest on Sunday with 46% of the votes counted.
Orban told supporters that the result was “painful” for him, adding that he congratulated Magyar on his victory.
Hungarians turned out in record numbers for the vote, which became a referendum on Orban’s increasingly authoritarian rule, which lasted for 16 years. Magyar cast the election as the last chance to keep Hungary, a NATO and European Union member, from sliding into Russia’s orbit.
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