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STORY: Speaking a day after Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared victory in the election, Jillian Stirk from the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights said there was little chance for voters to consider different parties' policies and media coverage of the election was biased.

“I was struck by the degree of political polarization and the negative nature of the campaign. Marked by personal attacks and an absence of public debate, there was little opportunity for voters to consider policy options,” Stirk said.

Kari Henriksen, the head of the OSCE's full-scale election monitoring mission for the vote, said observers in polling stations had only noted a few irregularities and problems on election day. Those irregularities were “mostly related to voter secrecy and the transparency of the tabulation process,” said Henriksen.

Nationalist Orban, who held on to his sweeping majority on Sunday, crushing the opposition despite efforts to unite against him, will likely continue to reject any EU sanctions on Russian oil and gas, arguing they would wreck an economy already slowing due to the impacts of the Ukraine war.