Winning the Election, Peter Magyar Pushing for New Hungarian Government

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JAKARTA - The chairman of the Tisza Party, which won the Hungarian parliamentary election, Peter Magyar, asked President Tamas Sulyok to immediately assign him to form a new government and then resign.

According to the latest data from the Hungarian General Election Office (KPU), after counting 95.63 percent, the Hungarian opposition party Tisza won the parliamentary election with 137 out of 199 seats, a constitutional majority.

"I ask the president to immediately order me, as the leader of the winning party list, to form a government and then resign," Magyar told his supporters in Budapest, as reported by Sputnik, Monday, April 13.

He also called for the resignation of the chief of the Supreme Court, the Attorney General, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court (MK), and the heads of other state institutions.

Previously, the Hungarian KPU said the Tisza Party won 137 of the 119 seats in parliament after 81.49 percent of the votes had been processed.

At the same time, the Fidesz Party led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, won 55 seats and the Our Homeland Movement Party won seven seats.

Viktor Orban has served as Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010 consecutively until now, with a leadership period that has reached around 16 years without interruption. He had previously also led Hungary in the period 1998-2002.