Election 2014 – Fidesz Two-Thirds Validates Measures Of Past 4 Years, Say Analysts

(MTI) – Fidesz increased its political legitimacy by winning a two-thirds majority in parliament again, while the opposition alliance’s performance suggests a crisis on the left, analysts polled by MTI said on Sunday.

Tamas Lanczi, senior analyst at Szazadveg, said the landslide election victory and the fact the left has split into parts has given Fidesz an even clearer mandate to govern. As a result, the new government is likely to have more leeway in its new term, although having completed most structural changes over the past four years, it was not in dire need of another supermajority, he said.

Robert Laszlo, analyst at Political Capital, said Fidesz is right to interpret its election win as a retroactive validation of everything it had done in the past four years. He said for this reason, Fidesz can be expected to continue governing along the rhetorics of the “freedom-fighter” and will pay even less attention to the opposition and to criticism from civil organisations.

Laszlo said the left will be an “ideally weak” opponent to Fidesz in parliament, but the strengthening Jobbik could be a threat.

Although Fidesz would have won the election under any system, its supermajority is “solely the result of an election system tailored to suit its own needs,” he said. He mentioned the larger impact of individual wards, the elimination of the second round of voting and the system of compensation for winning votes as examples.