Viktor Orban’s 16-year grip on Hungary is over. The Hungarian Prime Minister had conceded the election in a phone call with Peter Magyar, the leader of the main opposition Tisza Party. “The election result is painful but clear, I congratulated the winning party,” Orban said from his election headquarters in Budapest. The result is a resounding rebuke to a government marked by authoritarianism and corruption, and by closer ties with Beijing, Moscow and Donald Trump’s Washington over…


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