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You could really feel the shift in the political atmosphere after 16 years of that rule by Viktor Orban.

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it changes a lot of things very fundamentally and also the margin by which Peter Magyar was able to crush Victor Orban I who is going for his fourth consecutive term after 16 years in power he now has a two-thirds majority Petter Magyar that means that he can legislate very freely with the free hand over Hungary it also means he can make changes to the Constitution which is something

that Victor Orban enjoyed during his last term.

So it's really a significant victory, but also the margin is very, very relevant.

In terms of what he'll actually have to do to turn the economy around, that gets a little bit more complicated.

I mean, he's inheriting some of the same problems that brought Victor Orban down, a stagnant economy, but he's vowed to change things, to turn things around in the economy, to sort of cut out the corruption.

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Peter Magyar is still a very nationalistic figure.

This is a person that is squarely on the right, really draped in the Hungarian flag.

Even before J.D.

Vance arrived here, he said basically, once again, something we've heard throughout the election campaign, this is an election that will not be decided in Washington, D.C., it will not be decided in Moscow, but it will also not be decided in Brussels.

So he's really been taking some of the Orban playbook, but trying to give a more optimistic sort of view of the future.

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Peter Magyar is still a very nationalistic figure.

This is a person that is squarely on the right, really draped in the Hungarian flag.

Even before J.D.

Vance arrived here, he said basically, once again, something we've heard throughout the election campaign, this is an election that will not be decided in Washington, D.C., it will not be decided in Moscow, but it will also not be decided in Brussels.

So he's really been taking some of the Orban playbook, but trying to give a more optimistic sort of view of the future.

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The sort of whole Orban theory of politics has been basically to create sort of external threats, either, you know, sincere or in some ways fabricated to the Hungarian population.

That being said, there is a sense that that has sort of run out of steam at this point.

And Peter Magyar

has put out a slightly more optimistic view about what the future could look like.

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