As of April 6, 2022, the Fidesz-KDNP leads the vote by a wide margin and will gain 135 parliamentary seats, two more than in 2014 or 2018. In addition to the two-thirds majority of Fidesz, the opposition alliance United for Hungary won a total of 56 seats, and the far-right Our Homeland party also won 7 seats. In light of the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the voters’ desire for peace and security met with the major campaign message of the ruling party, and Fidesz was much faster to accommodate to the new war crisis situation than its rivals.
Leftist, center-right, environmentalist, socialist and liberal opposition parties decided on running together on a common list, with a common candidate for prime minister. Yet, the opposition formations together have lost almost 900,000 opposition voters compared to 2018, when they ran individually.
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With the help of guest experts and politicians, in the podcast series of MCC’s Centre for Political Science we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary and municipal elections taking place this year in different European countries and what exactly can be considered a real victory after the ballot counts.
