Socialist party leader concedes Hungarian election defeat

(8 Apr 2018) Gergely Karacsony, the prime ministerial candidate for the opposition Hungarian Socialist Party, conceded defeat in Sunday's election after scoring far fewer votes than his party had hoped for.
Karacsony partially blamed the loss on unfair election rules imposed by the governing Fidesz party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Early election results in Hungary give Orban's right-wing populist Fidesz party a large lead.
Preliminary results from the National Election Office have Fidesz winning Sunday's parliamentary election with 49.5 percent of the vote.
If the result stands, Fidesz would hold 134 of the 199 seats in the national parliament and regain its super majority there.

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