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Hungary's center-right Fidesz wins 2/3 parliamentary majority, National Election Office says

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's center-right Fidesz party, led by Viktor Orban, a former prime minister who promised to restore "law and order" and pull Hungary out of recession, won a two-thirds parliamentary majority on Sunday, the National Election Office said.With 98.1 percent of the ballots counted, Fidesz was projected to have 263 seats in the 386-seat legislature, five more than the 258 seats needed to control two-thirds of the parliamentary mandates."Today a revolution took place in the voting booths," Orban, now preparing to become prime minister again, told a large crowd celebrating victory in downtown Budapest. "Hungarians proved that it makes sense to believe in democracy because ... we can carry out the far-reaching changes which earlier only revolutions could offer."Fidesz already had won the right to form the next government in the first round of elections April 11, but the two-thirds majority will allow it to pass legislation without having to secure support from the...

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