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Election 2018 – Opposition leaders cast votes, welcome high turnout
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Leaders of Hungary’s opposition parties cast their votes in Hungary’s general election on Sunday and welcomed the high turnout of voters at the polls.
Gergely Karácsony, PM candidate of the Socialist-Párbeszéd party alliance, voted in Budapest’s 14th district, and said that the high turnout was a “sign of encouragement” to those that wanted to see a different government. He said he was convinced that people wanting change were in majority but “the question was if they would turn up to vote”. He added that turnout might be as high as over 70 percent at the end of the day.
Gábor Vona, the head of radical nationalist Jobbik, told journalists after casting his ballot in Gyöngyös, his home town, that Sunday’s ballot “will decide Hungary’s future for at least the next two generations”.
“At stake at today’s ballot is whether or not Hungary will become a country of emigrants”, he said.