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In the end, the defeat of Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s autocratic prime minister, required not just an ordinary election campaign or new messaging but rather the construction of a broad, diverse, and patriotic grassroots social movement. And by building exactly that, Hungary’s opposition changed politics around the world. Orbán’s loss brings to an end the assumption of inevitability that has...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comThis story was updated on Sunday, April 12, at 7:15 p.m. ET. Friends danced on one another’s shoulders. Fathers embraced their children. A teenage girl wept. Beer flowed. After 16 years, Hungarians had voted their strongman leader, Viktor Orbán, out of office. “I knew it was possible,” Balázs Nagy, a warehouse worker, told me this evening in Budapest, on the banks of the Danube. “Hungarians...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comis a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy,, was published 0n July 16. You can purchase it here. Supporters wave Hungarian flags as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaks to voters at an election campaign rally two days before parliamentary elections on April 10, 2026, in Székesfehérvár, Hungary....
Continue Reading on https://www.vox.com/BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat on Sunday after what he called a ″painful″ election result, ending 16 years in power for a powerful figure in the far-right movement allied with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Partial official results show opposition leader Peter Magyar’s party dominating the vote, in a bombshell...
Continue Reading on https://www.msnbc.com/Hungarians turned out in record numbers to vote Prime Minister Viktor Orbán out of office Sunday, delivering the defeat of a key European ally of President Donald Trump and ending his consecutive 16 years in power. Orbán, 62, conceded the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election to his former ally-turned-opponent Péter Magyar, 45, telling his supporters, “In any case, we will serve our homeland...
Continue Reading on https://dailycaller.com/Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, bringing an end to 16 years of governance in Budapest. Following a hotly contested campaign against his rival, Member of European Parliament Péter Magyar, and his upstart Tisza Party, a record turnout of over three-quarters of voters decided to turn the page from Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party, which...
Continue Reading on https://www.breitbart.com/Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orban after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions. It was a stunning blow for Orban — a close ally of both President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Continue Reading on http://www.newsmax.com/Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Update, April 12: After sixteen years, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday’s Hungarian elections. After the largest turnout in the country’s recent history, Peter Magyar’s Tisza party won 2/3 of the vote, a supermajority in...
Continue Reading on https://www.motherjones.com/To be present in Hungary on the eve of its upcoming elections is to feel the tremors of a regime confronting the prospect of collapse. For the first time in nearly a generation, Viktor Orbán, who has governed the country continuously since 2010, appears genuinely vincible. The formidable apparatus that he constructed to fortify his reign—comprising servile media, an acquiescent judiciary,...
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