Budapest ¨C When Peter Magyar was a child, he taped a photo of Viktor Orban, then an anti-Communist firebrand, on his bedroom wall, thrilled by Hungary¡¯s first democratic elections ?in 1990.
Decades later, he ended Orban¡¯s 16-year rule as prime minister in an election that brought a record-high turnout and was expected to rattle Russia and send shockwaves through right-wing circles across the West, including U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s White House.
Magyar¡¯s center-right, pro-European Union Tisza party beat Orban¡¯s nationalist Fidesz party in Sunday¡¯s parliamentary election. Partial results showed Tisza would win 137 seats, or a two-thirds majority, in the 199-seat parliament.
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