WORLD NEWS: Magyar’s center-right sweeps the Hungarian polls
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The keys new Generated with AI Viktor Orbán admits his defeat after 16 years in power, recognizing the victory of the center-right Péter Magyar and his Tisza party. With more than 70% counted, Tisza achieves a supermajority of 138 seats out of a total of 199, relegating Orbán’s Fidesz to only 54 seats. Hungary’s electoral system, previously designed to favor Orbán, has now allowed Magyar to obtain the majority needed to reform the Constitution. Tisza’s victory represents a historic change and breaks the stability of the party system in Hungary, consolidating a massive displacement of the opposition vote. This Sunday an era ends in Hungary. Without even waiting for the last vote to be counted, Viktor Orbán gave up this Sunday, ending 16 years of power. “The result is clear,” the ultra-nationalist president admitted in an appearance after knowing the preliminary results of the legislative elections that point to the clear victory of the Tisza party. With more than 70% scrutinized, the shakeup is total. The center-right opponent Péter Magyar has not only won, but projects a supermajority of 138 seats in a Parliament of 199. Fidesz has been reduced to 54 seats, according to projections. Thus, it seems that the system that Orbán redesigned to be invincible has now given his rival the “master key” that will allow him, among other things, to reform the Constitution. “Although the result is painful, the nation has made it clear that it does not give us the responsibility to govern,” the president admitted to his followers. Shortly after, the opposition leader confirmed the end of Orbánism by announcing on his social networks that Orbán himself had called him by phone to congratulate him on the victory. “A moment ago, the prime minister congratulated us on the phone,” Magyar wrote on Facebook, thus sealing a historic transfer of powers that some predicted would be turbulent, to say the least. This electoral reversal confirms the forecasts of pre-election polls, such as that of the 21 Research Centre, which already placed support for Magyar at 55% compared to 38% for the government formation. Hungarian parliamentary elections in Budapest. Reuters Election day thus consolidates a massive shift of the vote towards the Tisza party, whose emergence on the political scene has managed to break the stability of the Hungarian party system and concentrate the support necessary to displace Orbán’s Executive with an unprecedented absolute majority for an opposition party. A unique electoral system The Hungarian electoral system is one of the most complex in Europe, as it is based on a mixed reinforced majority model that combines the direct election of candidates in districts with party lists. Of the 199 seats in the National Assembly, 106 are elected using a simple majority system: the candidate with the most votes in each district wins the seat. The remaining 93, however, are distributed through a national list, with the theoretical objective of balancing territorial and ideological representativeness. However, the most controversial and distinctive element of the system is the so-called “distribution of surplus votes”, also known as “compensation of winners”. Unlike other models, in which only the votes of the losers are compensated, in Hungary the surplus votes of the winning candidate in each district are also added to the national list, that is, those that exceed those necessary to win. Thus, the winner wins twice. This mechanism usually favors the obtaining of supermajorities by the party with the most votes. Thus, Viktor Orbán has managed to reach two-thirds of Parliament on several occasions even without having an absolute majority of the popular vote. In addition to this mechanism, the Hungarian prime minister also redesigned the district borders in 2011 to group opposition votes in Budapest and disperse his votes in rural areas, which have more weight. This is what is known in the United States as gerrymandering. However, the system designed by Orbán seems to have turned against him.
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