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  1. What Orban’s Defeat Means for the Rest of the World
    nytimes.com/2026/04/13/opinion

    from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
    [gift article]
    Apr 13 2026

    [I think her analysis is correct. Magyar is a conservative, but not a fascist type like Orban. Now the left will have a chance to recover.]

    On Sunday, it happened: #ViktorOrban was defeated. In an election with the highest voter turnout in #Hungarys democratic history, #PeterMagyar’s #Tisza Party won a two-thirds supermajority, enough to alter the constitution that Orban had rewritten to shore up his power.

    Some admirers of #Orban have argued that the fact that he lost proves he was never an autocrat to begin with. What it really demonstrates, however, is that opposition to #Fidesz was so strong it was able to overwhelm all the structures Orban put in place to protect his rule: wildly distorted voting districts, a captured media, state-sponsored propaganda, local patronage networks, and widespread threats and intimidation.

    #news #politics #EUpol