by Aron Kocsis | Oct 8, 2026 | Boston University
The 2026 Hungarian national elections on April 12 have taken the world by surprise. Long-standing populist and stealth-autocrat prime minister Viktor Orbán and his party, FIDESZ, lost the election after 16 years in power to the opposition party TISZA, led by Péter...
by Sebastian Auld | Oct 7, 2026 | Boston University
Péter Magyar’s Tisza government says it is dismantling the system Viktor Orbán built over sixteen years. Several of its tools are the ones this course treats as warning signs of democratic erosion: constitutional amendments that removed Orbán-era officeholders,...
by Nicolas Mendez Comas | Oct 2, 2026 | Boston University
In 2011, Viktor Orbán’s government cleared hundreds of judges from Hungary’s courts by suddenly lowering their retirement age. Fifteen years later the same strategy was utilized against his own appointees. On September 15 parliament seated five new Constitutional...
by Amy Randolph-Espinoza | May 1, 2026 | Suffolk University
On April 12 2026 Viktor Orbán’s sixteen-year grip on Hungary ended. This is when Péter Magyar’s Tisza party won a landslide securing a two-thirds supermajority in parliament. The same threshold Orbán had used for years to rewrite the constitution in...
by Sam Dye | Apr 28, 2026 | Tulane University
Viktor , standard bearer of the international populist right wing and Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010, has been defeated. The election took place on April, 12th 2026 and saw Péter Magyar, a former ally of Orbán’s, achieve a sweeping victory in the highest turnout...
