Viktor Orbán has conceded in a speech to supporters, telling them: “The result of the election is clear and painful.”
I assume by “painful” he means “delightful”.
Viktor Orbán has conceded in a speech to supporters, telling them: “The result of the election is clear and painful.”
I assume by “painful” he means “delightful”.
And a victory for proportional representation too. A small outsider party gets its full percentage representation. 2 party systems like the US and UK get bogged down with 2 bad main parties that just get worse. You can’t get past them no matter how bad they are. Real democracy is not like that. Don’t stand for half democracy.
I agree with your general vibe but it’s worth noting that this was semi-proportional.
Hungary uses Mixed-Member Majoritarian, so the constituency seats do not influence the proportional seats. Mixed-Member Proportional generally attempts to make the final seat count match the list vote as close as possible, whereas in MMM, it’s almost as if the constituency seats and list seats are for two separate-but-parallel elections.
To put this in perspective, Tisza (the winning party) got 53% of the list vote, but nearly 70% of the seats (which is even more significant because in Hungary, you need 67% of the seats in their unicameral parliament to amend the constitution). MMP would have not awarded such a large majority; they would have got about 106 seats instead of 138.
Again, big fan of proportional representation, and while Hungary’s system is technically better than what we have here in the UK (unless you’re Scottish, Welsh, Norther Irish, or a Londoner), it’s not really a good example of PR.