Lucy Hough

That's it for today.

My huge thanks again to Paul Lewis, The Guardian's Head of Investigations.

Do read The Guardian's ongoing coverage of this story, including yesterday's exclusive written by Paul alongside our political editor, Bipa Kriera, and investigations correspondent, Henry Dyer.

Find all of that and more coverage over at theguardian.com.

I also really recommend today's episode of Today in Focus, which is looking at Donald Trump versus the Pope and what it means for the president's relationship with the Catholic and evangelical Christian wing of his MAGA base.

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This episode was presented by me, Lucy Hoth.

It was produced by Bryony Moore.

The senior producer was Ryan Ramgobin and the lead producer was Zoe Hitch.

Hungary enters a new era as Viktor Orban is ousted after 16 years in power in an election that will be critical to Europe and likely to rattle Washington.

From The Guardian's Today In Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hough.

Ashifa Kassam, you are a reporter covering Europe for us and you're currently in Budapest where you have been there for this historic moment that Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has finally been ousted from power after 16 years, this new era under the opposition candidate Peter Magyar.

So first of all, just tell me what the vibe, the atmosphere has been like in Budapest overnight and today.

Yeah, and we'll come on to some of those questions about what this means for Hungary in a bit.

But I mean, to your point that people weren't sure that this election would happen at all, there have been allegations, suggestions that Orbán and his Fidesz party would try to deny the vote, that there would be election rigging or fraud, that he would refuse to concede.

But in fact, there was huge turnout and a sort of landslide victory for Magyar and Orbán conceded very quickly in the end.

And the other part of this, as you mentioned, was foreign interference and specifically Russian disinformation.