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PBS News Hour - Segments

How Hungary's vote to oust Viktor Orbán could have global implications

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The incoming prime minister of Hungary struck a hopeful tone on Monday. Peter Magyar called for a swift transition of power and began to chart an ambitious course to reverse central pillars of Viktor Orbán's rule. Stephanie Sy discussed how the results could reverberate around the globe with Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor at Princeton University who lived and worked in Hungary. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The incoming Prime Minister of Hungary struck a hopeful tone today, and for the first time since 2010, it was not Victor Orban.

0:09.0

Peter Majar has called for a swift transition of power, and as Stephanie Tsai tells us, he began to chart an ambitious course to reverse central pillars of Orban's rule.

0:22.1

In Hungary today, a Budapest street musician sounds notes of jubilant and hope.

0:29.0

He's one of the millions of Hungarians celebrating the weekend's election defeat of Victor Orban

0:34.8

and his 16-year grip on power in this parliamentary republic.

0:39.5

With nearly 80% voter participation, 5.9 million Hungarians delivered a clear verdict.

0:48.7

Overwhelmingly choosing the opposition party Tisa, led by Peter Majjar.

0:55.0

Tens of thousands celebrated the results on the torch-lit streets of Budapest last night.

1:01.0

The incoming Prime Minister promises to lead Hungary back to its European alliances.

1:07.0

Yesterday, the Hungarian people made many decisions, perhaps one of the most important,

1:12.9

being that Hungary's place in Europe was, is, and will be a country that is a member of the

1:18.1

two most important and largest alliance systems, the European Union and NATO.

1:24.7

A former Orban loyalist, he ran on an anti-corruption platform.

1:29.5

Hungary is in trouble in every respect.

1:33.4

It's been plundered, looted, betrayed, saddled with debt and ruined.

1:38.3

It's been turned into the poorest and most corrupt country in the European Union.

1:42.0

A systemic change is needed, since ours has been effectively controlled by an organized criminal

1:47.0

group.

1:48.0

Prime Minister Orban's hardline nationalist government eroded democratic norms and institutions,

1:56.0

helping him stay in power, from stifling and co-opting independent media to weakening the judiciary's

2:05.3

independence, the nation slid toward what the European Union labeled electoral autocracy.

2:14.1

Majyar's Tisa party, which won an astounding two-thirds majority in Parliament over the weekend,

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