The defeat of Orb\u00e1nism is a globally significant political moment. But it is, above all, a triumph for the citizens who mobilised to take their country back<\/p>\n
Prior to his landslide election victory in 2010, which was to lead to 16 unbroken years in power, Viktor Orb\u00e1n would<\/a> tell supporters: \u201cWe have only to win once, but then properly.\u201d Achieving a so-called supermajority by winning two-thirds of parliamentary seats allowed Mr\u00a0Orb\u00e1n to change the constitution, and begin turning Hungary into a soft autocracy<\/a>. From the judiciary to the media and universities, the checks and balances of a democratic society were steadily dismantled and minorities were marginalised, as the country became a\u00a0beacon<\/a> for the global far right and a nationalist thorn\u00a0in the side of Brussels.<\/p>\n On Sunday, stunningly<\/a>, it was Mr Orb\u00e1n\u2019s centre-right challenger, P\u00e9ter Magyar, who \u201cwon properly\u201d. After a record turnout, his Tisza party is all but certain to win its own supermajority. Given Mr Orb\u00e1n\u2019s control of state media and gerrymandering of constituencies to favour his Fidesz party, this was a truly remarkable result.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The defeat of Orb\u00e1nism is a globally significant political moment. But it is, above all, a triumph for the citizens who mobilised to take their country back Prior to his landslide election victory in 2010, which was to lead to 16 unbroken years in power, Viktor Orb\u00e1n would tell supporters: \u201cWe have only to win … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}