The writer is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform
Viktor Orbán is out. After 16 years, Hungary’s voters have ended his stranglehold on power and with that, his predatory “System of National Cooperation”. Péter Magyar and his Tisza party have achieved what seemed close to impossible: wiping out an entrenched “electoral autocracy” on a playing field that had been designed to prevent exactly that.
Orban’s regime, sustained by a mix of targeted threats, economic dependencies, information warfare and, also, genuine popularity, is finally on the way out.
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