Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s outgoing Prime Minister, has announced he will not take up his place in parliament following his party’s crushing defeat that ended his 16-year rule.”I am now required not in parliament, but in the reorganisation of the patriotic movement,” he said in a video statement posted on social media on Saturday evening.
Despite his nationalist party Fidesz losing 135 seats to 52 in the 12 April election, Orbán was re-elected as an MP on its proportional representation list. Tisza, led by former Fidesz insider Péter Magyar, won more over two-thirds of the 199-seat parliament, clearing the way for a rethinking of both Hungary’s domestic policy and global ties.
After a meeting with Fidesz officials, Orbán, 62, announced that Gulyás Gergely, who previously oversaw the prime minister’s office, will lead the party’s parliamentary group starting Monday.The mandate I received as the main candidate on the Fidesz-KDNP list is actually a Fidesz parliamentary mandate. For this reason, I’ve chosen to return it,” Orbán stated.
Approximately half of Hungary’s parliamentary seats are apportioned among political parties based on their national vote percentage, with the remaining half representing individual constituencies.
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