Nézőpont analyst Csaba Fodor said Jobbik had lost many of its radical nationalist voters, and it was possible the party would fall into serious “disintegration”.

Comments by Gergely Karácsony, the prime ministerial candidate of the Socialist-Parbeszed party, suggested that a search for scapegoats had started on the left, while Ferenc Gyurcsány, the leader of the Democratic Coalition, “took a jab at” his opponents by fulfilling his objective of having an independent group in parliament.

Head of the Századvég Foundation, Tamás Lánczi, told news channel M1 that the election outcome “will turn almost all opposition parties to ruin”.

Opposition party leaders have been tendering their resignations in succession and “this is only the start of a crisis that is likely to deepen.”

Large internecine fights are starting within the opposition parties and they “will not be able to stay on their feet after such a serious defeat,” he said, adding that voters had expressed their wish that it should be a Fidesz-led government that represents Hungary’s interests in the “great battles” that are likely to come.

Nézőpont Institute leader Ágoston Sámuel Mráz said the Socialists, already in trouble, had now ended up with a “huge crisis”.

The speeches that followed the announcement of the election results showed that they had not been prepared for defeat, he added.

Hungary’s 2018 election, resulting in a third consecutive term for Fidesz, “is unique in central Europe...” Mráz said.

He added that there would be a great many conflicts in the upcoming period in areas covering European Union funds, migration and NGOs financed from abroad.

MTI photo: Balogh Zoltán