Thousands celebrate in Hungary as Péter Magyar ends Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule

Thousands flooded the streets as Hungary's opposition leader, Péter Magyar, declared victory after his Tisza party claimed a landslide win over Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party. The victory ends Orbán's 16-year rule and marks a significant shift for Hungary's relationship with the EU and Russia. Orbán, 62, was celebrated by conservatives across Europe and the US as the mastermind of the "illiberal" model of democracy, but lost favour at home with voters who grew weary of economic stagnation, international isolation and oligarchs amassing wealth. His landslide defeat handed Tisza's Péter Magyar, 45, a comfortable majority in Hungary's 199-seat legislature, opening the door for meaningful reforms of a system critics in the EU said subverted democratic norms Hungary election live: ‘We have done it,’ Magyar tells jubilant Budapest as Orbán’s 16-year rule ends