BUDAPEST: Viktor Orban, Hungary’s hard-line prime minister, pledged to fight for his country after casting his vote on Sunday in an election that is expected to give him a third straight term in office.

After an acrimonious campaign during which he portrayed himself as the protector of Hungary’s Christian culture against Muslim migration into Europe, all the opinion polls put his Fidesz party well ahead of rivals.

A strong victory could embolden him to add more muscle to a central-European alliance against the European Union’s migration policies.

Orban, Hungary’s longest-serving post-communist premier, opposes deeper integration of the EU bloc. Reuters