Orban slått knock-out

 A two-thirds majority is on the cards for Magyar

published at 22:11

22:11

Paul Kirby
Europe digital editor, in Budapest

Péter Magyar has completed his first task - that's winning the election.

But if he is going to reverse the system of cronyism and corruption that has dogged Hungarian society during 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz government, then he needs to win two thirds of the seats in the Hungarian parliament.

He is currently on course to do that. With 81.49% of the vote counted, his Tisza party is on course for 137 seats - five more than the 133 he needs for a constitutional majority.

Magyar is at heart a conservative, but he has brought under his wing a broad spectrum of Hungarians, so the government he will form will include health and education specialists and economists whose main task is to fix the chronic problems that have emerged in the schools and hospitals and the broader economy.

Without those 133 seats in parliament, they cannot change the constitution, and will be limited in what they can achieve.