{"id":746129,"date":"2022-01-12T11:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/hungary-sets-april-3-general-election\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:29:01","slug":"hungary-sets-april-3-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/hungary-sets-april-3-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary sets April 3 general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Hungary-sets-April-3-general-election.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 11 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Hungary will hold an election on April 3 for a new Parliament, President J\u00e1nos \u00c1der said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year, for the ninth time, Hungarian citizens with voting rights will be free to decide whom they will entrust with the management of our common affairs,&#8221; he said in a statement, reported by the Budapest Times.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Hungary&#8217;s 7.8 million voters will have the opportunity to cast two ballots in the single-round election deciding 199 seats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that under the law, Parliament must be chosen by May 3 at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>The race is likely to become a showdown between longtime incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s ruling Fidesz Party, and a now-unified opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n and his party will likely face a six-party opposite coalition that has selected P\u00e9ter M\u00e1rki-Zay as a candidate for prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>The race will likely determine whether Hungary will return to the European mainstream, or move closer to Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 11 (UPI) &#8212; Hungary will hold an election on April 3 for a new Parliament, President J\u00e1nos \u00c1der said Tuesday. &#8220;This year, for the ninth time, Hungarian citizens with voting rights will be free to decide whom they will entrust with the management of our common affairs,&#8221; he said in a statement, reported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}