{"id":23310,"date":"2026-04-12T18:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/23310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:47:12","slug":"polls-close-in-hungary-first-results-expected-soon-in-orbans-toughest-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/23310\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls Close in Hungary, First Results Expected Soon in Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Toughest Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tPolls Close in Hungary, First Results Expected Soon in Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Toughest Election &#8211; Hungarian Conservative<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>   &#13;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"skip-link screen-reader-text\" href=\"#content\">Skip to content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHungarian democracy showed \u2018very strong\u2019 resilience as voter turnout reached a record 77.8 per cent in Sunday\u2019s parliamentary election, Minister in charge of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office Gergely Guly\u00e1s said after polls closed. The figure surpasses the previous 2002 record and is expected to strengthen the mandate of the next government.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHungarian democracy showed \u2018very strong\u2019 resilience as voter turnout reached a record 77.8 per cent in Sunday\u2019s parliamentary election, Minister in charge of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office Gergely Guly\u00e1s said after polls closed. The figure surpasses the previous 2002 record and is expected to strengthen the mandate of the next government.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoakim Scheffer graduated from the University of Szeged with a Master\u2019s degree in International Relations. Before joining Hungarian Conservative, he worked as an editor at the foreign policy desk of Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet and serves as the editor of Eurasia magazine.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience and to personalize the content and advertisements that you see on our website. AcceptDeclinePrivacy policy<\/p>\n<p>\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polls Close in Hungary, First Results Expected Soon in Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Toughest Election &#8211; Hungarian Conservative &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[3206,3209,16353,421,422,423,934,2285,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-23310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-viktor-orban","8":"tag-election-2026","9":"tag-fidesz-kdnp","10":"tag-gergely-gulyas","11":"tag-hungarian-elections-2026","12":"tag-hungary","13":"tag-hungary-news","14":"tag-peter-magyar","15":"tag-tisza-party","16":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116393229904286130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}