If Tisza’s two-thirds majority is confirmed, state TV is set for change.<\/p>\n
Magyar moved slowly through the crowds before taking to the stage, flanked by his party colleagues.<\/p>\n
“You performed a miracle today, Hungary made history today,” he told the audience, to chants of “Ria-Ria-Hungaria!”<\/p>\n
He likened their electoral victory to the Hungarian revolution of 1848, and the uprising against Soviet occupation in 1956.<\/p>\n
There was a time when Orb\u00e1n himself spoke out against Soviet occupation, but he has become a close partner of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and his justification of cheap Russian oil and petrol has made him a highly unpopular leader in the EU, which has tried to shake off its reliance on Russian imports. Orb\u00e1n has also reneged on an EU agreement to provide Ukraine with a \u20ac90bn (\u00a379bn; $105bn) loan.<\/p>\n
“Russians go home,” Magyar supporters chanted, as the next Hungarian prime minister promised better relations with the European Union.<\/p>\n
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk was among the first of many European leaders to welcome Magyar’s “glorious victory”, adding in Hungarian “Ruszkik Haza” – Russians go home.<\/p>\n
The Tisza leader pledged that his first trip abroad as prime minister would be to Warsaw – to reinforce Hungary’s 1,000-year friendship with Poland.<\/p>\n
As for Orb\u00e1n, now 62, he has not resigned, and without him it is difficult to imagine what will happen to Fidesz.<\/p>\n
For now he will continue to lead Hungary in a caretaker role, while he and his party lick their wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Tisza’s two-thirds majority is confirmed, state TV is set for change. Magyar moved slowly through the crowds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-890115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}