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10:58Now PlayingFormer Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was re-elected leader of the Fidesz party with 729 of 737 delegate votes in Budapest on Saturday, despite Fidesz suffering its first major electoral defeat in 16 years to the opposition Tisza party in April's parliamentary election, which secured a two-thirds majority and saw Peter Magyar installed as Prime Minister on May 9. In his address to Congress, Orban accused the new Tisza-led government of abuse of power and politically motivated investigations, claiming newly published asset declarations showed Tisza representatives leading luxury lifestyles involving gifted BMWs and Maserati-driven ministers, while insisting his own government had remained law-abiding throughout its tenure. The remarks come as Hungary's Integrity Authority stated that high-level officials from the Orban era could face prosecution over approximately 3.5 billion euros in missing European Union funds, with the newly elected parliament establishing five commissions to investigate alleged corruption under Orban's previous government. In a separate and striking passage of his speech, Orban quoted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's stated position that the war in Ukraine would end only when Russia is economically or militarily exhausted, explicitly noting the words echoed rhetoric associated with a German Reich Chancellor of the 1930s, before invoking divine protection for Hungary. Orban also credited his 16-year tenure with maintaining Hungary's neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, implementing restrictive migration policies, and establishing what he described as a Christian-national constitutional framework, while acknowledging that Fidesz's election strategy and economic messaging had failed to resonate with voters amid broader economic stagnation across the European Union linked to sanctions on Russia.
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