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\n Eurosceptics may come and go, but there’s only one Viktor Orban. It took 16 years and Sunday’s record turnout in Hungary to vote out the seemingly unbeatable far-right leader who once boasted of building an illiberal state. Why did the far-right idol of MAGA world finally fall out of favour? And not just by a nose: “The Hungarian people didn’t vote for a simple change of government, but for a complete change of regime,” boasts Prime Minister-in-waiting Peter Magyar. How will the once-ally-turned-pro-EU conservative turn his constitutional supermajority into a rolling back of Orban’s consolidation of power? <\/p>\n
We ask about the task at hand and reactions abroad\u00a0\u2013 starting with Russia<\/a>, on which Hungary<\/a> depends for its oil and gas. How to handle the Kremlin<\/a>?<\/p>\n The sighs of relief in Brussels<\/a> and Kyiv<\/a> are audible, what with Budapest no longer championing a coalition<\/a> of Eurosceptics that includes France<\/a>‘s Marine Le Pen<\/a>.<\/p>\n But it doesn’t mean Hungary will always be pliant, nor that hostility from bigger powers will magically disappear.<\/p>\n