After 16 years, Viktor Orbán loses
Brussels Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
4.4 • 202 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:29.8 | Good morning or you're a gelt, as they say in Hungary. |
| 0:33.9 | It's Monday the 13th of April and this is the Brussels Playbook podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | The vibe in Brussels and Budapest today is that this is a new era. |
| 0:49.8 | Victor Orbán has lost. |
| 0:52.3 | The longest serving European Union leader, the man who has fought against the EU machine |
| 0:57.0 | and stopped it from pushing through some of its most high-profile policies, |
| 1:01.0 | who is a friend of Vladimir Putin and was ferociously supported by Donald Trump, |
| 1:05.0 | who was accused by the European mainstream for curbing democracy and limiting media and judicial freedoms, |
| 1:12.0 | who has sat around the EU table for the past 16 years. He suffered a crashing defeat in Hungary's |
| 1:18.1 | general election last night. Peter Magyar is done course for a huge majority. Over the next |
| 1:25.6 | few minutes in the podcast this morning, we'll look at the result and discuss what it means for Hungary, for Europe and for the world. |
| 1:32.3 | I'm me and Wishart, Politico's Senior EU Politics Editor. We're actually recording this shortly after midnight here in Brussels, so that we can talk with our two reporters on the ground in Budapest, who have been out with the two main parties |
| 1:45.5 | and who have been covering the election there for the past few weeks. |
| 1:49.2 | Max Greer has been with Peter Magia's victorious Tisa party, |
| 1:53.2 | and Jamie Detmer has been attending other watch parties around Budapest. |
| 1:59.5 | Good morning, gentlemen. So Orban conceded defeat shortly after 9pm. That was much earlier |
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