The mayoral election in Pecs has shown that Hungarian voters have transcended the division between left and right and will vote for in one direction if there is an appropriate candidate and programme, leader of the main opposition Fidesz party Viktor Orban said on Tuesday.
Fidesz’s candidate Zsolt Pava trounced the governing Socialist party’s candidate, Katalin Szili, in the southern Hungarian city on May 10.
“The election results show that people will not vote to the left or right [...] based on whether they consider themselves leftwing or rightwing,” Orban said “They are only concerned with one thing: how Hungary can get out of the trouble it is in,” Orban said at a press conference held jointly with Pava in Pecs.
Orban said at the same time however that if all rightwing supporters who want change voted in one direction, then a landslide victory could now be achieved in a general election.
