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Goodbye, Viktor.

Your loss is Hungary's (and democracy's) win

Robert Reich
Apr 13, 2026
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Friends,

Today, the good people of Hungary brought to an abrupt end 16 years of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule.

Nearly 78 percent of eligible voters turned out, an unequivocal mandate whose repercussions are already echoing from Budapest to the European Union, to Moscow, and to Washington.

As I wrote yesterday, Trump and Putin pulled out…

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