Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who lost the election, said he will return the parliamentary mandate he received as leader of the Fidesz party, and will not take a seat in the new parliament.
“The mandate I received as leader of the list is actually my parliamentary mandate from Fidesz, so I decided to return it. Now I am needed not in parliament, but in the reorganization of the national camp,” Orban said in a video message posted on Facebook.
According to Orban, discussions within the Fidesz leadership are now “in full swing” about modernizing the faction, which will be formed on April 27, and whose leader will be Gergely Gulyas.
Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi He writesHe added that, according to him, Orban intends to travel to the United States this summer, where his daughter and son-in-law live, and he may remain there for a long time in search of “refuge from prosecution.”
On April 12, parliamentary elections were held in Hungary, in which Orbán’s Fidesz party lost. Orban, who has been in power for 16 years, conceded his party’s defeat that same evening and congratulated rival Peter Magyar on his victory – and will now become prime minister. His TISA party also won a constitutional majority in Parliament.