Polls have closed in Hungary's national election on Sunday in which pro-Putin nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban sought a fourth consecutive term.
There were no exit polls but the first results are expected to be reported later in the evening. Opinion polls in the last days of the race gave Orban's right-wing Fidesz a slight advantage over Western-looking coalition of opposition parties.
Recent polls suggest a tight race but give Fidesz a slight lead. Analysts have predicted high turnout, and around 40 per cent of Hungary's nearly 7.7 million eligible voters had cast a ballot by 1 p.m., according to the National Election Office. "I really count on the monitoring. It's fine, I'm happy with that. But I don't really believe will be clean enough. Even the campaign was not clean enough," Somogyi said.
At his final campaign rally on Friday, Orban told supporters that supplying Ukraine with weapons -- something that Hungary, alone among Ukraine's EU neighbours, has refused to do -- would make the country a military target, and that sanctioning Russian energy imports would cripple the economy.
Orban has taken many of Hungary's democratic institutions under his control, and depicted himself as a defender of European Christendom against Muslim migrants, progressivism and the "LGBTQ lobby."
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