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Election 2014 – Hungary electoral system “unfair”, say European greens
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Brussels, April 7 (MTI) – Hungary’s electoral system should be “blamed” for the Fidesz party’s second landslide victory in Sunday’s election, the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA group has said.
In a statement today, Rebecca Harms, leader of the Green group, noted that Fidesz had garnered 44 percent of the vote, and could probably have two-thirds of the seats in the Hungarian parliament.
The county’s “unfair electoral system now cements Orban’s sinister national populism,” she said.
Harms insisted that limits on press freedom, the judiciary’s independence and the central bank, as well as a “biased appointment and nominations policy” in favour of ruling Fidesz, had all got the wheels turning for Fidesz’s big win.
The ratio of voters abstaining from the election, at 38 percent, is high and indicates people’s disappointment with the electoral system, she said.