Hungary’s governing Fidesz party has yet another landslide victory under its belt, as it garnered nearly 52% of the votes. Far-right party Jobbik also had reason to celebrate, with almost 15% of the votes and three seats won in the European Parliament. The leadership of the Socialist Party offered its resignation as a response to how poorly the party fared in the election.
Turnout in Hungary was extremely poor, under 29%. Lower turnout was recorded in five countries, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia. The European average was 43.11%.
In 2009 turnout in the European Parliamentary election in Hungary was 38.5%, against the European average of 45.47% and the respective ratios in 2004 were 36.31% and 43%.
They are going to be Hungarian MEPs:
Fidesz-KDNP: GÁLL, Ildikó, SZÁJER, József, TŐKÉS, László, DEUTSCH, Tamás, GYÜRK, András, GÁL, Kinga, SCHÖPFLIN, György, ERDŐS, Norbert, BOCSKOR, Andrea, DELI, Andor, KÓSA, Ádám, HÖLVÉNYI, György
Jobbik: MORVAI, Krisztina, BALCZÓ, Zoltán, KOVÁCS, Béla
MSZP: SZANYI, Tibor, UJHELYI, István
DK: MOLNÁR, Csaba, NIEDERMÜLLER, Péter
Együtt-PM: JÁVOR, Benedek
LPM: MESZERICS, Tamás Informative data on the Hungarian members of the Elections of the European Parliament
“I have an important announcement to make: Today, Jobbik is the second-strongest party in Hungary," President of the far-right nationalist party, Gábor Vona, told a press conference.
He added that the low turnout is a “warning sign", suggesting that “the Hungarian society does not believe in the current European Union."
The lesson learned from the results is that “Jobbik cannot be cracked. We have become the challenger for Fidesz, the potential replacement party for Fidesz," added Vona.
“We won, we hugely won. Moreover, we won the best!," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told his enthusiastic audience.
Fidesz scored the best result of all members of the centre-right European Peoples Party, and therefore contributed most, relatively speaking, to the EPP victory, “as we [...] have beaten the Socialists also in Europe," he said.
The job of the elected MEPs will be to “warn the institutions of the European Union that they should not choose ways that are in conflict with our common culture and the common values of the European Christian civilisation."
Earlier this month Orbán has already celebrated Europe’s Christian identity - partly by saying that family is the marriage of man and woman -, while also decrying immigration. His remarks won a reproach by German Chancellor Angela Merkel who she often disagreed with Orbán.
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