Context
Hungary just ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year run.
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Péter Magyar’s Tisza party won a landslide, and Orbán conceded, according to BBC, Apr. 13, with Reuters and NBC News framing it as a hard reset for Budapest’s relationship with the EU. Brussels has spent years treating Hungary as the bloc’s resident dissenter; now it has to test whether this was a protest vote, a durable realignment, or both.
Smart Take
Hungary just ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year run.
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The smart take: Europe’s populist story just lost one of its longest-running incumbents. A competent Magyar government would make every “strongman but make it permanent” project in the region look less permanent.
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