Hungarian Election Results: Magyar Accuses Fraud
19 April 09:16
On Saturday, April 18, Hungary’s National Election Commission published the final results of the country’s parliamentary elections after 100% of the votes had been counted. According to the results, the “Tisa” party, led by Péter Magyar, won 141 of the 199 seats in parliament, while Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s right-wing populist “Fidesz” party won 52 seats. Six seats went to the far-right “Our Homeland” party; the remaining parties failed to enter parliament. In the party-list vote, Tisa received 53.18%, Fidesz 38.61%, and Our Homeland 5.63%, reports "Komersant Ukrainian".
Mátyás speaks of fraud
Meanwhile, election winner Péter Magyar announced that he intends to challenge the voting results in the 2nd district due to fraud. According to him, voters were misled because a person named Péter Magyar, who is close to Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party but officially unaffiliated, was running there.
Mátyás’s namesake received 909 votes. And only because of this, according to the politician, was the official Fidesz candidate Péter Ágy able to narrowly defeat Tisa candidate Viktória Strompová and secure a parliamentary seat. According to the election commission, Ágy received 25,700 votes, while Strompova received 25,452.
In a video message posted on Facebook, Hungary’s likely future prime minister stated that “deliberate, malicious deception following the Russian model” had taken place in this district. Even before the election, the police launched an investigation into the legality of the nomination of the independent candidate with the same name as Magyar. The decision on whether a re-vote will be held in this district will be made by the court.
