A few hours before the polls closed, Peter Magyar and Viktor Orban gave new messages to voters in which each of them urged their supporters to vote. Two hours before the voting ended, the turnout was a record, even higher than the total recorded in other polls.
“Every vote can be decisive. We need to push hard so that everything ends now. Vote and encourage people to vote,” Tisza's leader wrote on Facebook.
On the other hand, Viktor Orban wrote that “the peace and security of Hungary may depend on a single vote today.” “Today we must defend Hungary, today no patriot can stay at home,” wrote the Hungarian prime minister, who may lose power after 16 years.
His message is in line with the line of communication adopted by the party throughout the campaign, as described by Andrea Virág, director of strategy at the Republikon Institute, a Budapest think-tank, in an interview with HotNews.
Record attendance at elections
More than 74.23% of voters voted by 5:00 p.m., the Hungarian press announces. It is a new record set in Hungarian elections. They voted until 5:00 p.m., two hours before the polls closed, more people than they had done all day in previous polls.
The previous record was set in the parliamentary elections of 2002, when 70.53% of voters voted throughout the day, writes Telex. The publication recalls that, in the second round since then, the turnout was slightly higher, but the voting was no longer organized at the national level, so the comparison is made with the first round.
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