Last weekend, Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party not only won 88 out of the 106 single mandate constituencies, but also the popular vote — with more than 53 percent of the ballots cast on party lists.
The united Hungarian opposition, which according to polls was in a neck-and-neck race with Fidesz , only won 18 single mandate constituencies and 34 percent of the party list votes.
And to add to the gloom, the extreme-right party Our Homeland also entered parliament, with 6.15 percent of ...
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Daniel Hegedüs is transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS).