Apr 14, 2026 at 17:50
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Bye, bye Orbán! Péter Magyar and his Tisza party win a two-thirds majority in the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election
Bye, bye Orban! Péter Magyar (*1981) and his oppositional Tisza party win a two-thirds majority in the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election—despite all of Viktor Orbán’s (*1963) repeated gerrymandering, the control of roughly 80% of the media in Hungary, and repeated election handouts to retirees and rural residents, who make up his core constituency. On April 12, 2026 the turnout was 79.55%—a substantial increase of 9.96 percentage points in comparison with the 2022 election, in which Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party had “won” a two-thirds majority in a...
