YES!!! Hungary has booted out the far right after 16 ruinous years, and Orban has conceded. That could NOT have gone ANY better!

@SunshineGirl What made me laugh was Vance had the NERVE to claim the EU was interfering in the election, when he was doing EXACTLY that!

Every Republican accusation is a confession.

@Waveney It's an extraordinary result and I hope it chills the American administration. There is clear evidence of gerrymandering, yet the opposition has won more than 60% of the vote. Thank goodness Orban has conceded defeat and not done a Trump.

@SunshineGirl Poland‘s reform process is currently being impeded by the intricate coalition maintenance that‘s required to keep a very broad and disjointed ruling coalition united in the Sejm. An unthankful task for Donald Tusk. In addition to that, this rather diverse majority is merely an absolute majority.
Dynamics in Poland are further bedeviled by Poland’s semi-presidential system and last year‘s election of Karol Nawrocki as Poland’s President, who‘s affiliated with the country‘s illiberal opposition, the PiS party, just as his predecessor, Andrzej Duda, was.

It seems that Peter Magyar, however, will have to contend with no such impediments. The President in Hungary is a largely ceremonial figure and Magyar‘s Tisza party‘s supermajority in parliament will endow his Premiership with enough political heft to undo the democratic backsliding that occurred during the tenure of the outgoing government.
Ironically, Orban‘s and Fidesz‘s power consolidation will even facilitate the expeditious disintegration of Orban‘s illiberal project, now that the political winds have turned decisively.