US EditionElection Loss for Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán Has Ripple Effects for Trump, US Conservatives
Trump backed Orbán’s reelection bid, and Democrats say the loss shows even leaders who tilt institutions can be defeated.
- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lost his reelection bid last week, despite President Donald Trump sending Vice President JD Vance to Budapest to campaign for the incumbent.
- For 16 years, Orbán maintained power by using his Fidesz party to tilt the judiciary and electoral system after rewriting the constitution in 2010.
- American Democrats fear Trump will use executive power to tilt upcoming elections, mirroring Orbán's methods of consolidating authority through governmental levers.
- The European Union declared Hungary an electoral autocracy, and Orbán was Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest European ally who blocked aid to Ukraine defending itself after Russia's 2022 invasion.
- Harvard professor Steven Levitsky said "oppositions can win despite a tilted playing field," while Schlapp noted democracies eventually "just want change" when "the people in the end speak.
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Despite the best combined efforts of 'Trumputin', Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been politically buried in the parliamentary elections held on Sunday in Hungary. His overwhelming defeat has a significance that goes far beyond the European Union because it is precisely Orbán who began, almost two decades ago, to define and vertebrate all that national-populism that in its decadent illiberal splendour we suffer today. Hungarian was the first to …
Trump, Vance, and the Kremlin all backed Orbán, but Hungary's record voter turnout just handed MAGA its most humiliating defeat yet
Peter Magyar and his center-right Tisza party have won a landslide victory in Hungary, effectively ending Viktor Orbán‘s 16-year rule. With 97.35 percent of precincts counted, Magyar’s party claimed a two-thirds majority in the 199-seat parliament, securing 138 seats compared to the 55 seats won by Orbán’s Fidesz party. Voter turnout reached nearly 80 percent, marking a major turning point for the country. The Trump administration had placed a s…
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The Seattle TimesElection loss for Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán has ripple effects for Trump, U.S. conservatives
President Trump supported Viktor Orbán’s reelection bid and even dispatched Vice President JD Vance to Budapest last week — in the midst of the Iran war — to stump for the incumbent.
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