Hungary: Orban's right-wing party wins EU election but loses major support

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Although his populist Fidesz party won 44% of votes in Sunday's EU election, a newcomer is threatening Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's grip on power.

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00:00 [Music]

00:04 Viktor Orban's Hungarian right-wing Fidesz party won big at the EU elections, but lost major support.

00:13 [Speaking Hungarian]

00:30 The Prime Minister's populist party received 44% of support at the polls on Sunday,

00:36 but experienced great losses and was down a whopping 11 percentage points from the 2022 general election results.

00:43 This is the party's biggest defeat in 18 years.

00:46 Fidesz's traditional opponents, the Social Democrat and Greens parties,

00:50 only received 8% of votes and did not meet the threshold for entry into European Parliament.

00:56 But a new political contender formed a few months ago, titled TISA, garnered a mammoth 29% of support.

01:03 Party leader Peter Mozsor spoke of the ground-breaking results.

01:07 [Speaking Hungarian]

01:21 As of Monday, 99% of the ballots have been counted.

01:26 [Speaking Hungarian]

01:51 [SWOOSH]

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