Maitlis
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What is the feeling tonight?
Were you surprised?
Disappointing, sure.
But I think many consequences need to be drawn.
Do you think Viktor Orban should step down now from the head of the party?
Do you think he should have stepped down before this election?
To give it to another generation.
I think we probably would have gone off worse when he would have stepped down.
I don't think so.
And what do you think it was?
Was it just 16 years or was it corruption?
When you talk to the young, they say they want Hungary to go in a different direction now.
And I think that's a big player.
But also, yeah, 16 years are 16 years.
Will it change Hungary's relationship now with America?
Well, you should ask Trump, maybe.
So what did go wrong?
Well, I guess you could say by any measure that 16 years is too long.
But I think there was something fundamental about the way Orbán tried to run his campaign this time round.
There are pictures of Zelenskyy wherever you go in Hungary.