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On April 12, 2026, Hungarian voters delivered a historic landslide to opposition leader Péter Magyar's Tisza party, ending Viktor Orbán's 16-year grip on power with a two-thirds supermajority — the largest mandate any party has won in a free Hungarian election. The result reshapes European geopolitics, strips Russia of its most reliable EU ally, and launches what will be a long, contested effort to reverse more than a decade of democratic erosion.