“FORTUNE IS A LIBERAL MISTRESS,” Napoleon is reported to have said before his defeat at Borodino. “I have often said so, and now begin to experience it.” Words of wisdom, perhaps, for Viktor Orbán, who some have said suffers from bouts of Bonapartism. Since winning a landslide election in 2022, debilitating the opposition, and securing an intractable hold over the country, he has been wrestling with mounting difficulties that have finally exacted a domestic political cost. For the first time since coming to power in 2010, Orbán confronts a political opponent against whom he can find no kryptonite, a former member of his party’s inner circle who’s turned against him and upended Hungarian politics. That man is a 43-year-old political phenom named Péter Magyar.

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Categories: Hungary, Research

Tags: Hungary, Péter Magyar, Viktor Orbán