How Orbán Defeated Himself
Alegeri Romania
On Sunday, voters ousted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s populist right-wing government. In a landslide victory, Peter Magyar’s Tisza, a center-right party, won 53 percent of the vote, compared with 39 percent for Orban’s Fidesz party. In his 16 years in power, Orban had been a role model for aspiring authoritarian leaders far beyond Budapest. His regime had lasted as long as it did because it was extremely adept at rigging the electoral system and stoking polarization in society. Yet
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