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VIKTOR Orbán led Hungary as prime minister for 16 years before he was finally unseated by Hungarian voters in the April 2026 elections. His defeat was made possible by a broad coalition of political and civil society groups, led by Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party. Orbán had long projected himself as a populist and nationalist strongman, often aligning more closely with Russia’s Vladimir Putin than with the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). For decades, his image endeared him to many Hungarians until voters grew exhausted of his misrule.