Hungary's Orban to set up new gov't structure after election victory

BUDAPEST, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who won a third consecutive term at the general elections held on April 8, on Tuesday said he would set up a new government structure.

"We will not simply continue governance, but instead a new government will be created," he said. "We are not going to prolong the last cycle, but rather we shall create a new cycle," he told journalists.

Orban said significant changes and modifications are expected, meaning new ministers in a new structure.

He said that his party Fidesz has started negotiations with junior coalition partner KDNP (Christian Democrats) and that the formation of the new government could take as long as three to four weeks.

Evaluating the election, Orban noted: "Hungarians have highlighted the most important issues, such as immigration and national sovereignty, and decided that they were the only ones to select who they would like to live with in Hungary."

He made an allusion to the rejection of migrant relocation quotas of the EU, a strong point of his electoral campaign.

He argued that the government wanted a nation of Europe and not the "European United States".

"Our support is a clear, a strong mandate, even one of the strongest -- if not the strongest -- of the past 30 years," he said about the outcome of the elections.

Orban's Fidesz-KDNP coalition consolidated its power by winning 133 or 134 seats of the 199-seat Hungarian parliament according to official but partial results. The final result is to be published on Saturday.

This result translates into a qualified or so-called two-thirds majority, which allows Orban to make profound changes in Hungarian public administration, including the modification of the constitution. Enditem