Here’s my broader take on what brought down Orbán, which I wrote for The Bulwark. I think Péter Magyar’s victory will likely prove to be a significant event in Hungary’s post-1989 history.
“EVERY SO OFTEN history offers up events that feel so improbable and fortuitous that one is tempted to see in them the guiding hand of providence. The end of South African apartheid was one such epochal shift; the collapse of European communism was another. For most Hungarians, the end of Orbánism falls in that category as well. The year 2026 marks a dramatic turning point in their history, the second time in thirty-seven years that they have lived through a ‘system change’ (rendszerváltás).”
Categories: Hungary, Politics, Research
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Interview with Zoltán Fleck, Chair of Péter Márki-Zay’s Constitutional Working Group 
H. David Baer 
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