Orban, Free of Electoral Pressure, to Focus on Budget
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban swept local balloting yesterday, freeing him from electoral pressures until 2014. Now he can turn his attention to budget concern that has put the country’s credit-rating at risk.
Orban’s Fidesz party captured the Budapest mayor’s office for the first time, mayoral positions in 22 of the 23 biggest cities and all 19 county assemblies, according to the national election commission. The Socialists, which lost control of the national government in April, won one major city, Szeged.