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WORLD NEWS Monday 9 april 2018

Hungary's Viktor Orban wins

re-election, gets super majority

By PABLO GORONDI Coalition and the green Union and wealthy philan-
Associated Press Politics Can Be Differ- thropist George Soros to
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — ent party were expected turn Hungary into an "im-
Hungarian Prime Minister to surpass the 5 percent migrant country," threaten-
Viktor Orban easily won a threshold needed to form a ing its security and Christian
third consecutive term Sun- parliamentary faction. identity.
day and his Fidesz party Orban won his fourth term "Hungarian democracy is
was poised to regain its su- overall on a platform that strong," Gergely Gulyas, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban greets his supporters in
per majority in parliament, openly demonizes migrants parliament faction leader Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 8, 2018.
according to preliminary to Europe. for Fidesz, said. "Alongside Associated Press
results from the country's Opposition parties feared high voter turnout, the
election. that another super-major- country will have a strong, fought in England," ''They party list.
With 84.7 percent of the ity would allow the auto- legitimate parliament." can't stand it anymore Opposition parties had
votes counted, Fidesz and cratic leader to more easily Government influence on in Sweden: They've had urged Hungarians to vote
its small ally, the Christian push through constitution- the media was palpable enough of migrants," and tactically for the candi-
Democrat party, had se- al changes, continue his in Sunday's broadcast by "A migrant in underpants date with the best chance
cured 133 of the 199 seats crackdown on civic groups state television M1 news beat a German retiree half to defeat the Fidesz candi-
in the legislature, the mini- that he claims work against channel, where reports to death." date in the 106 individual
mum needed for a two- Hungarian interests and fur- highlighting the negative The opposition denies Or- districts — and they ap-
thirds majority. The right- ther strengthen his grasp on effects of migration domi- ban's claims on migration. peared to have won 15
wing nationalist Jobbik the highly centralized state nated the programming. Uncertainties about Or- individual seats compared
party placed second with power structure. On Origo.hu, a formerly in- ban's expected margin of to 10 in 2014. Still, Fidesz im-
26 seats, while a Socialist- Orban has campaigned dependent website now victory are due in part to proved its results in terms of
led, left-wing coalition ran heavily on his unyielding owned by government al- Hungary's complex elec- the 93 distributed based on
third with 20. anti-migration policies. He lies, stories promoted Or- toral system, in which voters votes for entire party lists,
Only two other parties, for- claims that the opposition is ban while also focusing on cast ballots for both an in- getting 49.1 percent com-
mer Prime Minister Ferenc collaborating with the Unit- migration, The headlines dividual candidate in their pared to 44.9 percent four
Gyurcsany's Democratic ed Nations, the European included "Migrant gangs region and another for a years ago.q
6 detained amid 'vague indications' of attack at Berlin race

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER police wrote in a joint state- man Thomas Neuendorf
BERLIN (AP) — Six people ment. told local broadcaster RBB
were detained in connec- Berlin police tweeted that that the evidence of a vi-
tion with what police and six people were detained able and imminent attack
prosecutors allege was a in cooperation with the was not yet confirmed.
plan to carry out an attack city's prosecutor's office. "They were very vague indi-
on Berlin's half-marathon The German daily Die Welt cations, but because of the
Sunday, German authori- first reported that police high threat level we imme-
ties said. A police spokes- foiled a plot to attack race diately started with our po-
man later said that no spectators and partici- lice searches and arrests,"
athletes or spectators had pants with knives. Neuendorf said. “But at the
been in danger. The main suspect allegedly moment there are no really
"There were isolated indi- knew Anis Amri, a Tunisian concrete indications that
cations that those arrested, who killed 12 people and an attack on the Berlin half-
aged between 18 and injured dozens more when marathon was foreseen,”
21 years, were participat- he drove a truck into a he said. The half-marathon
A suspect is lead away by police officers after he was arrested ing in the preparation of a Christmas market in Berlin in was being guarded by
in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, April 8, 2018. crime in connection with December 2016, Die Welt some 630 police officers,
Associated Press this event," prosecutors and reported. Police spokes- dpa reported.q