When on April 3rd the results for the election in Hungary came in, many people were clearly shocked. Even though the opposition party had hoped to end up close to Orban as earlier polls expected them to be trailing by merely six percent points, they were disappointed. Orbans governing party won by 53% of the votes, whereas the opposition only had 35%. If Orbán wins for the fourth consecutive time, he will retain his position as the longest reigning leader within the EU. Mr. Orbán himself claimed that his political win was actually an ideological one, as it confirmed the constituency for his personal ideology ‘illiberal nationalism’.

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