Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat in parliamentary elections on Sunday night after official projections based on interim results put the opposition Tisza party on course for a landslide victory.
With nearly 97 per cent of the votes counted, the Tisza (Respect and Freedom) party led by Péter Magyar was projected to win 138 out of 199 seats in parliament, a two-thirds majority that would enable it to change the constitution. Orban’s Fidesz party was projected to win just 54 seats, down from 133 in 2022.
In a victory speech to a huge crowd in the capital Budapest, Magyar said: “Together, we liberated Hungary and got rid of the Orbán regime.”