Good morning from Brussels, which is awakening this morning to a new dawn in Hungarian politics as Viktor Orbán is ousted after 16 uninterrupted years in power. I’m Mared Gwyn.
After a rancorous and bitter electoral campaign in which Hungary’s place in Europe and the world took centre stage, Péter Magyar -- a former Orbán confidant who broke ranks with the Fidesz party to lead the conservative Tisza Party just two years ago -- has won a supermajority of an estimated 138 of the 199 seats in parliament, and is now poised to become the Hungarian Prime Minister.
