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Hungary: Polling to elect new members of 199-seat Parliament begins

<span style="color: #222222;">In Hungary, polling to elect new members of the 199-seat Parliament began today. Over 7.8 million voters are eligible to cast their votes at more than 10,000 polling stations until 2230 Hours (IST). <br />''<br />''Preliminary results are expected tonight. Polls predicted a narrow win for incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orban's  Fidesz party and its allied Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP). Orban had been in power between 1998 and 2002 and came to power again in 2010.<br />''<br />''Peter Marki-Zay, the alliance's candidate for Prime Minister and currently the mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, said that his political formation was 'at the gate of victory'. In the last elections of 2018, Orban's coalition Fidesz-KDNP won 133 seats, securing a two-thirds majority in Parliament.</span><br />

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