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Viktor Orbán’s New Assault on Free Media and Civil Society
23 November 2023
While many of the ruling parties in CE maintained their domestic lead in the EU polls, their influence will be greatly diminished in the European Parliament.
First, in Slovakia, the newly established parties – Progressive Slovakia (ALDE) and Spolem (EPP) – running together in the coalition have defeated the governing party SMER (SD). The radicals did not perform as well as many had feared.
Second, Viktor Orbán got only 13 seats (+1) despite projections giving him an even larger portion of vote; this could be slightly disappointed considering the the dominant role of the party in Hungary.
Finally, in Poland, the PiS party gained more than 45 per cent – the highest result any party ever won in EP or general elections in Poland. For Jarosław Kaczyński, the Chairman of PiS, this dominating win on the domestic front will, at the same time, turn into a pyrrhic victory in the EU.
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