Hungarian PM Orban expects to win 4th term in national vote
BUDAPEST - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to win his third consecutive term—and fourth overall—in Sunday's national vote but opposition leaders were encouraged by a high early turnout.
Polls agree on the triumph of Orban's right-wing nationalist Fidesz party and its allied Christian Democrats, but a splintered opposition and Hungary's complex electoral system make the exact margin of victory hard to predict.
According to the National Election Office, 2.35 million voters had cast ballots by 11 a.m. (0900 GMT), or 29.93 percent of those eligible. That was the highest turnout figure for that hour since at least 1998.
"We are celebrating democracy and it seems like this feast will be beautiful because many of us are taking part," said Gergely Karacsony, the leading candidate of the left-wing Socialist and Dialogue parties.
