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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
James C. Reynolds

How Trump’s support delivered the kiss of death to Orban’s election chances as Hungary’s leader suffers crushing defeat

It took Viktor Orbán 16 years to reshape Hungary in his image. It took one evening to undo it.

Peter Magyar’s landslide victory followed months of campaigning, positioning himself as the antidote to years of autocratic drift, while Hungary’s veteran nationalist leader doubled down on his ties to Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

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