Out of 13 by-elections held since 2010, turnout was higher only in four.
According to Fidesz’s communications director, Tamás Menczer, this weekend’s local by-election win by the Fidesz-led alliance, with 64 percent votes cast for the ruling parties, was a “huge victory”.
Krisztina Csibi’s win in the Dombovar by-election in Tolna County, he said, showed that Hungarians “clearly see what is at stake” and chose to back the government instead of
“Brussels’ new man”, [Tisza Party leader] Peter Magyar.
Out of 13 by-elections held since 2010, turnout was higher only in four, the interviewer said in the public television broadcast on Monday.
“The victory needs no explanation,” Menczer said, dismissing Magyar’s insistence that turnout had been “one of the lowest ever”.
“Peter Magyar plays the fool very well,” he said, adding that turnout had been slightly above average.
The Fidesz politician said Magyar’s party had not run in the by-election because “he also knows that all left-liberal opinion polls are lies and manipulation”, and he knew that Tisza would have suffered a defeat had they decided to enter a candidate.
Menczer said the “pro-war, pro-immigration and pro-gender forces have lost Washington, but they are still present — and have a majority –in Brussels”. But after Donald Trump’s victory, the patriotic forces of Europe would “focus all their energies on Brussels, and the decisive battle will take place there.”
Regarding David Pressman, Menczer said the outgoing US ambassador had ruined relations between the two countries. “He wanted to force war, immigration and gender nonsense on us, and he’s despondent that he failed to,” he said. With President Trump taking office, Hungary-US relations “can flourish on a political level” as they did in Trump’s first term, he added.
