Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions. It was a stunning blow for Orbán - a close ally of both U.S. President
Hungarians today vote in an election whose outcome may already be decided, and whose meaning will become clear only after the ballots are counted. This is not just another European political contest. It is a test of whether a system designed to make itself unbeatable can still be beaten. Democracy, at its core, is a system of reversibility. Governments
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the European Union's longest-serving leader and one of its biggest antagonists, has taken a long road from his early days as a liberal, anti-Soviet firebrand to the Russia-friendly nationalist admired by the global far-right today. After dominating Hungarian politics for more than two decades, the 62-year-old
