The Fall of Orbán: How Tisza Defeated Europe’s Illiberal Trailblazer
The Hungarian parliamentary elections on Sunday, 12 April, were closely watched around the world, despite the normally limited geopolitical significance of this landlocked country of fewer than 10 million inhabitants. The reason was Viktor Orbán, the incumbent who ultimately lost: long celebrated by far-right populists worldwide, he had become notorious as the leader who first…