Hungary ousts longtime prime minister Viktor Orbán
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán concedes, US President Donald Trump says America will launch a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after peace talks with Iran failed, and Wall Street banks are set to report trading revenues of more than $40bn for the first quarter. Plus, Meta is building an AI version of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, April 13th, and this is your FT News briefing. |
| 0:10.7 | A new era dawns in Hungary after voters oust their strongman prime minister in a landslide election. |
| 0:18.3 | Plus, oil prices jump as the U.S. vows to block Iranian ports, and Wall |
| 0:23.5 | Street's biggest banks are expected to report a banner first quarter this week. |
| 0:28.4 | This is set to be one of the record quarters, and that's because there's been so much volatility |
| 0:34.7 | from the start of the year. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm Victoria Craig, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:50.3 | Hungarians handed their longtime leader, Victor Orbán, |
| 0:53.4 | a crushing defeat in Sunday's election. |
| 0:56.0 | In a speech, Orban conceded that the election in a speech Orban conceded that the election results are painful but thanked his supporters |
| 1:15.8 | and congratulated the opposition. |
| 1:18.5 | The Prime Minister's concession came after just more than half the ballots were counted, |
| 1:23.0 | but the victory for his rival, Peter Maggiar, was decisive. |
| 1:26.1 | It left him with a clear majority in parliament |
| 1:28.9 | after voters turned out in record numbers at the end of a bitterly contested race. Our correspondent |
| 1:35.5 | Martin Dunei is in the capital, Budapest. He spoke to me from a rally just after the opposition |
| 1:40.9 | leader claimed victory. I started by asking him what the mood was like on the ground. |
| 1:46.3 | The mood is difficult to describe. |
| 1:48.4 | It was electric. |
| 1:50.3 | It was crazy. |
| 1:52.2 | Never in the post-communist history of Hungary |
| 1:54.8 | have people voted in such numbers in any election. |
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