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 Magaworld finally fall out of favor?
And not just by a nose: “The Hungarian people didn’t vote for a simple change of government, but for a complete change in 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?We'll ask about the task at hand and reactions abroad - starting with Russia on which Hungary depends for its oil and gas: how to handle the Kremlin?
The sighs of relief in Brussels and Kyiv are audible, what with Budapest no longer championing a coalition of Eurosceptics that include France's Marine Le Pen.
But it doesn't mean Hungary will always be pliant... nor that hostility from bigger powers will magically disappear.
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