Hungary’s opposition candidate has won the country’s momentous election, bringing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16-year reign to an end and delivering a symbolic blow to the Trump administration.

Peter Magyar, leader of the pro-European conservative Tisza Party and Hungary's Prime Minister-elect, delivers a speech in Budapest, Hungary, on April 13, 2026. —Jakub Porzycki—Getty Images Peter ...

WASHINGTON — In Hungary, President Donald Trump and his top officials used social media and an election-eve trip to Budapest to promote the country’s far-right prime minister in his reelection ...

Visiting Hungary last year, I was surprised to learn that the vaunted playbook operationalized by Viktor Orban for dismantling democracy—mimicked by President Donald Trump—had, after years, led to the ...

At first glance, the expected but still shocking ouster of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, long considered a poster boy for Europe's populists and President Donald Trump's Make America Great ...

• Concession: Veteran Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accepted defeat in a parliamentary election on Sunday, ending his 16 years in power. He congratulated Péter Magyar, leader of the ...