Maitlis
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shock when they, I mean, do you think they're going to find out that he is, you know, he's not as corrupt or he's not as autocratic, but in policy terms, he agrees with many of the things that Orban put in place, doesn't he?
So Hungary will open up to migration?
He represented hope, and yet his ex-wife, Judith Varga, who was in the OrbΓ‘n cabinet,
went on air a couple of years ago and alleged he was a domestic abuser to her in their marriage.
I mean, is it possible that the people of Hungary have just voted out an autocrat and voted in a man who's guilty of domestic abuse?
Like a sex tape.
Yeah.
You think it's part of a dirty tricks campaign.
It is not unusual to see the opposition win in Budapest.
It is unusual to see such a comprehensive obliteration.
I mean, it's unusual.
It's never happened.
We've never seen Fidesz pushed out of power like this.
And it looks like Teaser won astonishingly, like 90% of the constituencies of the whole country.
So this was a rural vote that won it.
So let us just look outwards now.
Donald Tusk has already congratulated Magyar.
This is a moment when Poland and Hungary look as if they're on the same page again politically, but they both left illiberal democracy for liberal democracy.
Do you think that is a major shift now for Europe, for the EU?
But for Ukraine, this is massive now because it releases all those blocked EU funds in terms of age, right?