Rob Schmitz
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183 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 16 Aug
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It's consider this where every day we go deep on one big news story.
Today, democracy returns to Hungary.
Back in April, I reported from Budapest to chronicle one of the country's most historic elections.
Victor Orban, the longtime strongman leader who ruled Hungary with an iron fist for sixteen years, was unseated in a landslide.
The city erupted in celebration.
Hungarians filled the streets, they sang, they danced, and we were left awestricken.
Eighteen year old Sarah Chongaradi voted for the very first time.
She couldn't contain her excitement.
Consider this, what's happened to Hungary since then, and how has the government of the newly elected Prime Minister Peter Madjar tried to reconstruct its democracy?
From NPR, I'm Rob Schmitz.
Mm-hmm.
It's consider this from NPR.
A couple of months ago I went back to Budapest to see what has changed since that historic election in April.
Incredible.
I started my journey in Mari Aramete, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods overlooking Buda, the hilly city district filled with castles and churches perched above the Danube.
And this is where I run into blogger Geza Bob.
He's wearing shorts and a backpack, and he's hiked a mile from the nearest bus stop.
with my with my own eyes.
Bob hiked all this way to see an abandoned construction site.
Above us looms a ten-story crane that rotates with the wind.
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