Hungary: Viktor Orbán voted out after 16 years as Péter Magyar wins election
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Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, electing Péter Magyar in a decisive victory, The Guardian reported.
The Opposition Tisza party, led by Magyar, is projected to have won 138 out of 199 seats in the country’s parliament.
Orbán, the chief of the Fidesz party, conceded defeat shortly after polls closed, describing the result as “painful but unambiguous” and congratulated the winning party.
“We are going to serve the Hungarian nation and our homeland from opposition as well,” The Guardian quoted the right-wing leader as saying.
After his victory, Magyar said “together we replaced the Orbán regime, together we liberated Hungary”, CNN reported.
Magyar, a former insider in Orbán’s political circle who later emerged as his main challenger, split from Fidesz in 2024 and rose quickly through a campaign focused on corruption and public services, AP reported.
He also pledged to repair relations with the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Orbán, who has been in office since 2010, had been accused by the European Parliament of turning Hungary into a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”, Time Magazine reported.
It had said that while elections are held in Hungary, “respect for democratic norms and standards is absent”.
He had repeatedly clashed with the European Union partners over the war in Ukraine, including blocking funding for Kyiv, BBC reported.
Orbán had maintained close...