Fidesz chairman Viktor Orbán and the party’s four deputy chairpersons, Mihály Varga, Lajos Kósa, Zoltán Pokorni and Ildikó Gáll Pelcz were re-elected at the 23rd Fidesz convention in the Sportmax stadium in Budapest’s 12th District on Saturday afternoon. Orbán received 1,211 affirmative votes of the 1,216 cast.
After his re-election, Orbán underlined that the European Parliament election result represents “an historic opportunity, as it appears that Fidesz and the Christian Democrats will be able to govern without a political coalition”.
Caucus leader Tibor Navracsics said Viktor Orbán will be the prime minister in a year’s time “if voters do their job well. The question is no longer whether Fidesz will win the elections but whether it will gain a two-thirds or a three-quarters majority,” he added.
In his speech 12th District mayor Zoltán Pokorni said he will not allow the removal of the turul bird statue that was erected in the borough without a building permit four years ago. Pokorni acknowledged the existence of a racist group named the Turul Alliance between 1919 and 1945, but asked whether one of Hungary’s national symbols should be “junked”.
Transylvanian MEP László Tőkés called for the common European representation of ethnic Hungarians living in the Carpathian Basin.
