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Pro-EU marchers demand new election after losing
PRO-EUROPEAN Union demonstrators marched through the opposition-inclined Hungarian capital Budapest at the weekend, demanding new elections after defeat in last week’s general election.
Tens of thousands called for a new national electoral system after conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban was re-elected for a fourth term.
His Fidesz party and its small Christian Democratic ally won 134 seats in the 199-seat parliament after taking around 50 per cent of the vote.
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