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Election 2018 – Ethnic Hungarian leaders welcome Fidesz election win
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Leaders of ethnic Hungarian parties and organisations have welcomed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party’s victory in Sunday’s general election.
Hunor Kelemen, head of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ), said Hungarians had voted to continue work started by Fidesz.
Over the next four years, Hungary will be ruled by a government that prizes the importance of the Transylvanian Hungarian community, he said.
László Tőkés, head of the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania (EMNT), described the outcome of the election as “the triumph of love over hate”. He said the election had been won by the party that had committed itself to “the issue of the Hungarian nation’s fight of self-defence” and lost by “those who had worked to divide the nation”.
Balázs Izsák, head of the Szekler National Council (SZNT), called Fidesz and Orbán’s victory “the victory of Szeklers”. “We all desire for Hungary to be an independent and sovereign state, for laws to be passed in Hungary’s national interests and for the country to be able to protect its own borders,” Izsák wrote in an open letter to Orbán.