Budapest (AFP) – Pro-European conservative Peter Magyar tells supporters “Hungary will once again be a strong ally within the EU and NATO” after his party won a two-thirds parliamentary majority in Sunday’s elections. Orban, a self-described “thorn” in the EU’s side and defender of “illiberal democracy”, lost Sunday’s elections after 16 years in power, despite vocal support from both US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, as Hungarians fed up with corruption gave Magyar a decisive victory.
