When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.

As long as elections are still happening, ousting a wannabe dictator is possible, Chicago Tribune columnist Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

The longtime Prime Minister's defeat could reshape Hungary's ties to the E.U., Ukraine, and the global far-right movement he helped inspire.

Hungary is Europe's basket case, a nation that saw little economic progress under Orbán—as well as diminishing freedoms.

Hungarian right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat Sunday after suffering a “painful” election result that ended the Trump administration ally’s 16-year grip on Budapest. With 60% of the vote counted by afternoon,

He's ousted the man who ruled for 16 years.

One of the biggest soccer fans in global politics, Viktor Orbán, has been sidelined from his big game. The right-wing populist leader and Trump ally’s heavy defeat in the Hungarian elections means incoming Prime Minister Péter Magyar will be the one in charge when the Champions League final comes to Budapest next month.

As many in Hungary celebrated the defeat of Viktor Orbán last weekend, others, who have consumed little but state media for the past decade, felt crippling fear.

Learn about Péter Magyar, the former Orbán insider who ended Hungary's 16-year ruling regime and is now set to lead the country into a new era.

Orbán was sworn into the Hungarian Defence Forces in 2019 and in 2020 was sent on a nine-month training course at the elite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK. View on euronews