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Hungarian right wing Jobbik party candidate declared by-election winner

Xinhua, April 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Jobbik Party candidate Lajos Rig was declared the winner of a parliamentary by-election after a Thursday count of absentee ballots, Mrs. Jeno Ughy, chief of the elections bureau section dealing with individual constituencies told wire service MTI.

Rig received 35.49 percent of the vote in the Sunday by-election in Veszprem County, some 140 km southwest of Budapest, beating the governing Fidesz party's Zoltan Fenyvesi, who took 34.27 percent. Rig is ahead of Fenyvesi by 365 votes.

Rig is the deputy mayor of the town of Tapolca which also has a Jobbik mayor.

The far right Jobbik won 20 percent of the vote in April 2014 elections, giving it 23 Members of Parliament on a national list. Rig became Jobbik's first MP elected for an individual constituency.

Hungarian Parliament has 199 seats, 106 seats are distributed by individual constituency and 93 are by the parties' national lists. Endit