Scheppele offered a detailed election analysis with the help of Hungarians Miklós Bánkuti and Zoltán Réti. She concluded that Viktor Orbán received a clear mandate at the April parliamentary elections in the sense that his party won more votes than any other.

“However his two-thirds majority is illegitimate,” she said. “Orbán is clearly not supported by two-thirds of Hungarians; the election results are far from that; in reality the majority of voters did not vote for Fidesz, but for other parties or a party alliance.”

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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