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Orbán Loses Power in Hungary, Steps Down from Parliament

Viktor Orbán's 15-year grip on Hungary ended this week after his Fidesz party suffered a landslide election defeat, with Orbán announcing he will not even take up his seat in parliament as leader of the opposition. The Hungarian election campaign was itself a story: analysts at Murmur Intelligence found that Hungarians made up only around 1% of the geopolitically-charged discourse on X during the campaign period, with foreign actors dominating the online conversation. The fall of Europe's most prominent democratic backslider reshapes the EU's internal politics, removes a key obstacle to unified action on Ukraine, and leaves Orbán's brand of illiberal nationalism without its most prominent standard-bearer. Czech polling data published this week showed Trump's approval among Czechs has hit a historic low of 75% negative, suggesting the regional mood has shifted sharply.

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Orbán steps down from Hungarian parliament after landslide defeat

BBC · Apr 25