Orban suffered a crushing defeat in the Hungarian elections

The opposition party Tisza, led by Peter Magyar, is leading the parliamentary elections in Hungary: after processing 93.4% of the votes, it receives 138 of 199 seats.

This is a constitutional majority, which allows decisions to be made without regard to other political forces.

Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz party and its junior partner, the Christian Democrats, are in second place with 54 seats. In third place is the far-right party “Our Motherland”, 7 seats.

The turnout in the elections was a record 77.8%. This is a record for the entire modern history of Hungarian parliamentarism.

This is Orban's first defeat in 16 years. He has already congratulated Magyar's party on its victory, calling the election results "painful" and said that Fidesz will serve the Hungarians while in opposition.

Observers recorded fraud in the elections, and it was expected that the results would be challenged in court. But given Orban’s restrained reaction, it’s unlikely to expect a lawsuit from him.

Supporters of Orbán and Magyar gathered in Budapest on opposite banks of the Danube. As Reuters reports , while opposition voters are rejoicing, some who voted for Orban are literally crying.

“Together we overthrew the Orban system and together we liberated Hungary, we took back our country,” Magyar told the crowd at the rally.

As he walked up to the stage, people sang Frank Sinatra's hit My Way.

Magyar's party has an unprecedentedly strong mandate. He promises to carry out the transition process “as efficiently, peacefully and smoothly as possible.”

For the first time in many years, the country’s government and general course are changing - from loyal to Russia, right-wing and anti-European to liberal and pro-European. Democratic changes will allow the country to receive about 18 billion euros from the EU, this is a significant part of Hungary’s GDP.

Throughout the four years of the great war in Ukraine, 62-year-old Viktor Orban played along with the Kremlin and used the levers of the European bureaucracy to block aid to Kyiv. He also used anti-Ukrainian rhetoric in the election campaign. As it turned out on the eve of the elections, Orban and his Foreign Minister coordinated their actions directly with Vladimir Putin.

45-year-old Peter Magyar, a lawyer and likely new prime minister, on the contrary, is committed to supporting Ukraine. Since childhood, he himself was a fan of Orban as a symbol of anti-communist resistance, and until 2024 he was a member of his Fidesz party. In the 2010s, Magyar worked in the Foreign Ministry and the Orbán administration. Magyar's ex-wife is Orbán's justice minister. The current winner of the elections left Fidesz only recently, accusing the party of corruption and claiming the presence of dirt on Orbán officials.

As a result of these elections, the Russian regime loses its only significant leader within the EU, and after the fall of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and Bashar al-Assad in Syria, it loses its third loyalist force in the world in recent times (not counting Iran, which is so far holding back the onslaught of the United States).

Orban, as a right-wing conservative force in Europe, was also sympathetic to US President Donald Trump. Before the elections, US Vice President J.D. Vance came to Hungary to demonstrate support for Fidesz.