The Hungarian mayor's scandal in orgy with prostitutes continues | Chronic

The scandal that triggered in Hungary the broadcast of recordings and videos of political leaders having orgies with prostitutes and alleged drug consumption had a complete impact on the Magyar politics and the main concerned was the governor Fidesz, the prime minister Viktor Orban, whose political hegemony over a decade was defeated by the loss of recent elections of councilors and mayors across the country.

Although the filtering of recordings and videos involved MPs, mayors and politicians from several parties, the worst was Fidez, who, in the hands of conservative Orban, built his electoral power of nearly a decade with policies anti-immigration and a railroad. defense of European Christian culture and traditional family values.

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Fidez was defeated Sunday in mayoral elections and city councilors in more than 3,000 localities in the 19 Hungarian provinces, including the strategic city hall of Budapest, where the opposition candidate Gergely Karacsony won 50% of the vote in the official account István Tarlós, direct ally of Orban.

In the last weeks of the campaign, the local press reported several scandals that have erupted in the home stretch, for example the leak of a video showing a Socialist MP speaking of corrupt practices nearby. A table in what appeared to be a line of cocaine.

Shortly afterwards, recordings and photographs were published in which the mayor of Györ, supported by Fidesz, participated in sexual orgies on a yacht in Croatia.

Some Fidesz politicians told 24.hu portal that the opposition was able to better mobilize their voters for the scandals, while others criticized the orientation of the training and assured that Party sympathy tendencies were poorly analyzed, according to the newspaper. portal nepszava.hu, quoted by EFE.

For these elections, the Hungarian opposition decided to join for the first time the local opposition coalitions of centrist Momentum to the left of the Socialist Party, the Democratic coalition, Párbeszéd (Dialogue) and the LMP ecologist but sometimes on the far right. Jobbik.

For Karacsony, this cooperation between the opposition parties is the only way to win the legislative elections of 2022.

The political map of Hungary, since the municipal elections of 2006 and until last Sunday, was painted in orange (color Fidesz) and, although Orban still retains two-thirds of the Parliament, losing the major centers urban, especially Budapest, that means a painful defeat.

The blow to the elections by Orban's party sparked Fidesz's first internal criticism against the leadership of the party, which has ruled by an absolute majority since 2010 and even against Orban himself, who concentrates the party's internal power.

"We have become sweet and well off", said a Fidesz scholar from the town of Eger, where the ultra-nationalist party ruled until last Sunday for thirteen years, EFE reported.

"I expect strong conflicts and Orbán begins a clean-up in his circles", stressed a political analyst at the Spanish press agency.

After the election result, Karacsony said that he wanted to improve relations between Budapest and the government.

"We are not preparing for war, but for cooperative construction, we will build from tomorrow a green, transparent and supportive city that works with a good reputation", concluded Karacsony, quoted by the CNN network.

Orban accepted the defeat and said that since the match "We take note of this result, all we can say is that we are ready to cooperate in the interest of the inhabitants of the country and Budapest", as reported by CNN.

Whatever the case may be, the Prime Minister recalled that his party still had a parliamentary majority.