Opposition leader Peter Magyar took a 13-point lead over the Hungarian PM as early results came in.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called opposition leader Peter Magyar and congratulated his Tisza party on its election victory. At the time of the call, Tisza was leading Orban’s Fidesz party by 52% to 39% of the vote.
Magyar dominated pre-election polling, after campaigning on corruption, public services, and restoring ties with the EU. His victory determines not only who governs Hungary, but also how far Budapest resists policy proposals coming from Brussels.
Orban has spent years frustrating the EU with his stance on Russia, sanctions, and military support for Ukraine, making this election a closely watched test for Brussels as well as for Orban’s allies on the international right. Ukraine is also watching – and allegedly interfered in – the vote, as Orban is currently vetoing the EU’s planned €90 billion loan package for Kiev.
Data from Hungary’s National Election Office showed a record turnout of 77.8%, the highest in any election in Hungarian history.
Independent polling summarized by AP suggests Tisza entered election day with momentum, though the race was still expected to be tight because of Fidesz’s entrenched rural support and the advantages Orban enjoys from incumbency and Hungary’s electoral system.
Earlier, Magyar wrote off reports that he was planning to instigate post-election riots as “scare stories and lies,” after a former Tisza party adviser released a document alleging that Magyar’s EU backers were urging him to declare victory prematurely, and start street-level violence modeled on the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine if the result doesn’t go his way.
Orban CONCEDES ELECTION DEFEAT https://t.co/TnTmjjO4st pic.twitter.com/1V4l4BSN6I
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Congratulations Hungry for becoming another EU slut and providing Zelensky with more money to put into his back pocket. You should hold your heads in shame.
As Eva Vlaadingerbroek of the Netherlands says – “Looks like the last bastion is gone. The Hungarians are about to learn the true meaning of “you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” And the rest of us in Europe have just lost our only real stronghold against the EU.”
Devastating.
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Don’t tell me the EU didn’t interfere, in a similar, if not same way, they did in Romania and elsewhere. The only hope now are party’s like the AFD and National Rally. If they get in it will be a serious blow to the EU and might even spell its end. Time will tell.
Another free and fair non interfered with ‘democratic’ election.
Good comment. I don’t believe any elections in the ‘western world’ are free and fair anymore. I’m convinced they’re all rigged.
“Record turnout” is always a dead giveaway 👍
Watch this country open its borders to the hordes like every other idiot nation.
It already has. The free pass went to India.
They been living in a white country Christian fairytale, they going to see the evil EU now. You voted for your women and children to be hurt.
What Orban’s defeat changes for Russia and Europe https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/04/13/2234273.html
This is terrible news. Good luck Hungary. 😕