This means that we will exceed 50% by all likelihood. Thus the referendum will be valid whatever is the vote. Based on the polls I showed, 3xYes is all but certain. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Turnout is now projected at 56%, this would give Yes majorities that are 39-41% of all eligible voters. So a comfortable victory of the vote against reforms.
The pollsters again have an egg on their face: they expected much lower turnout, around 45%. But still, they have interesting data: for the first time in Hungarian voting history, the rural turnout exceeded the urban vote. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
However, immediately after polls closed, the PM held an unscheduled press conference, declaring that the government will introduce draft laws re-instating the pre-reform status quo ante, but won't be able, nor intend to find other sources of money for hospitals, doctors and universities.
Bang... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
HírTV taped two leaders of (neo)liberal SzDSz while they watched the PM's speech. The PM was using the following rhetoric: "All that happened today is that people said, 'if one doesn't have to pay 300 Ft [c. €1.2, the visitation charge], then we would like to not pay 300 Ft." Then one of the SzDSz guys remarked to the other: "That's not what they said, Feri [PMs nickname], they said you to fuck yourself!"...
(To wit: this is certainly what motivated many if not most on the Right, but also comes handy for reformist self-delusions about lack of real popular rejection.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
