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Hungary’s prime minister-elect vows to suspend ‘propaganda machine’ state media

Péter Magyar, whose landslide election victory on Sunday [brought an end](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/viktor-orban-concedes-defeat-as-opposition-wins-hungarian-election) to leader Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power, detailed his plans for the suspension as he gave two tense interviews

Does Viktor Orbán’s defeat signal a wider backlash against ‘the forces of darkness’?

Tisza party – despite an electoral system designed to favour Fidesz – suggests that these eye-popping details were merely the last straws for a population desperate to reclaim their country as a functioning democracy. Orbán