# End of an era: Why did Hungary vote out far-right's Orban?

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Podcast: [The Debate](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-debate-1101606)
Published: 2026-04-14T07:49:47+00:00
Episode link: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260414-end-of-an-era-why-did-hungary-vote-out-far-right-s-orban?PcNCvtcnHj
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Eurosceptics may come and go, but there's only one Viktor Orban. It took 16 years and Sunday's record turnout in Hungary to vote out the seemingly unbeatable far-right leader who once boasted of building an illiberal state. Why did the far-right idol of MAGA world finally fall out of favour? And not just by a nose: "The Hungarian people didn't vote for a simple change of government, but for a complete change of regime," boasts Prime Minister-in-waiting Peter Magyar. How will the once-ally-turned-pro-EU conservative turn his constitutional supermajority into a rolling back of Orban's consolidation of power? We ask about the task at hand and reactions abroad – starting with Russia , on which Hungary depends for its oil and gas. How to handle the Kremlin ? The sighs of relief in Brussels and Kyiv are audible, what with Budapest no longer championing a coalition of Eurosceptics that includes France 's Marine Le Pen . But it doesn't mean Hungary will always be pliant, nor that hostility from bigger powers will magically disappear. Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.

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