Hungary PM courts diaspora vote for 2014 election


  • World
  • Wednesday, 06 Nov 2013

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged Hungary's large ethnic diaspora on Wednesday to exercise their newly won right to vote in next year's national election, hoping they will help to further cement his grip on power.

Several million ethnic Hungarians live in neighbouring Romania, Serbia and Ukraine and elsewhere, descendants of Hungarians who found themselves outside their homeland when the country's borders were redrawn at the end of World War One.

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