What’s behind Viktor Orban’s defeat in Hungary’s election?

After 16 years, Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his populist Fidesz enactment person been defeated.

Orban’s erstwhile state Peter Magyar volition present instrumentality the helm.

Magyar says his blimpish Tisza enactment volition displacement distant from Russia – and towards the European Union

But Orban had been supported not conscionable by Russian person Vladimir Putin, but by Benjamin Netanyahu successful Israel and Donald Trump successful the US.

So, however volition Washington respond to the effect – aft it publically backed Orban’s government?

Can Budapest amended its relations with Brussels? And volition that alteration the level of Europe’s enactment for Ukraine? Will Magyar beryllium capable to transportation retired the reforms helium has promised?

Presenter: Scott McLean

Guests:

Gabor Scheiring – Assistant prof astatine Georgetown University successful Qatar and a erstwhile subordinate of the National Assembly of Hungary

Carl Bildt – Co-chair of the European Council connected Foreign Relations and the erstwhile premier curate of Sweden

Kim Lane Scheppele – Professor astatine Princeton University