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Especial Europe Today: Magyar vence a Orbán en Hungría tras 16 años de gobierno: ¿Y ahora qué?
Sintonice nuestra edición especial de Europe Today sobre las elecciones húngaras, en directo desde Bruselas y Budapest, con entrevistas y un análisis en profundidad de la aplastante victoria de Péter Magyar sobre Viktor Orbán.
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00:30After 16 years of conservative, illiberal rule,
00:33Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's era has come to an end.
00:37In an election that saw record voter turnout,
00:40Hungarians opted for Peter Maillard and the opposition TISA party.
00:43We'll bring you the latest from our correspondents in Budapest.
00:47And from Brussels to Madrid, Berlin to Paris,
00:51European leaders have welcomed the news,
00:53repeating the refrain, Hungary has chosen Europe.
00:56Kiev has also expressed its relief.
00:58We'll have the latest from Sharma Shev, former EU Council President.
01:02As with most of the votes counted,
01:03the preliminary results mean the opposition TISA party
01:06is now set to secure 138 of the 199 seats in the Parliament,
01:12with Orbán's Fidesz on 55 and the far-right, Our Homeland, on 6.
01:17That would give TISA a super majority,
01:19allowing them to amend the Constitution
01:21and potentially reverse some of the changes introduced
01:24by the outgoing Fidesz government,
01:26which led, of course, to EU funds being frozen.
01:29Peter Maillard, the 45-year-old former Orbán ally,
01:32is the face of this landslide win
01:34and spoke to his supporters in the packed streets of Budapest last night.
01:38Take a look.
01:39Together, we replaced the Orbán system.
01:43And together, we liberated Hungary.
01:46We took our homeland back.
01:50The result marks a major moment in Hungary's history
01:53as outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
01:55held a tight grip on power for the past 16 years.
01:58For more on the landslide win for the opposition party TISA,
02:02a political party that was just set up two years ago,
02:04we can cross now straight over to Budapest
02:07and bring in our EU news editor, Maria Tadeo.
02:09Maria, this election is being watched all across the world.
02:13Can you just run us through the results?
02:18Yes, Maeve, and a historic night in Budapest,
02:21but also across Hungary.
02:23Peter Maillard obviously winning that election with a landslide,
02:26moving forward now to this two-thirds majority,
02:28but also putting an end to the 16 years of rule by Viktor Orbán,
02:32who pioneered in so many ways the concept of the liberal state
02:36that coming to an end yesterday with a massive shift at the polls.
02:40And look, from the early hours of the morning,
02:42you could see there was something in the air.
02:44It was electrifying the people that we spoke to.
02:47They all said, at this point, I just want change.
02:50A lot of the young people, too, that we spoke to in Budapest,
02:52they all said, look, I've lived my adult life with Orbán in government.
02:56Now I want something new.
02:58The trains, the buses, the trams, just to give you an anecdote,
03:01were absolutely packed from 6 p.m. in the direction of the TISA election night.
03:05We had to walk it at some point.
03:07But as you say, yes, this was an election that was closely monitored,
03:10certainly by the European Union, which hopes for a reset to the United States,
03:14which now effectively loses its biggest ally in Europe.
03:17And then, of course, there's the Russia question, which we'll debrief in more detail later.
03:22And, Maeve, in terms of what's to come, yesterday,
03:25Peter Magyar said that he acknowledges the challenges ahead will be massive.
03:29He also set out his foreign policy priorities will be heading to Poland.
03:32He said, quote, the goal is to fix a friendship with the Polish,
03:37then head to Vienna, deep historical ties between Austria and Hungary, of course,
03:41and then lastly, head over to Brussels.
03:43The goal, Peter Magyar said, is now to unlock the funding,
03:46more than 17 billion euros and defence loans for Hungary,
03:50which he stressed now belong to the Hungarian people,
03:53but they will be pending on major reforms.
03:56OK, Maria Tadeo, stay with us there.
03:58We'll come back to you very shortly on the programme.
04:00But first, let's bring in Euro News' Zoltan Siboshegi,
04:03who spent the evening at the TISA headquarters
04:05and is now along the Danube there in Budapest,
04:08where the remains of the celebrations last night are still very much in full view.
04:13Zoltan, great to have you with us on the show.
04:15Just tell us, how are TISA supporters feeling about the future of Hungary?
04:21Good morning, Europe, today, and thank you for having me.
04:24As you can see, all around me there are rubbish on the street
04:27because thousands of people were partying till morning here next to the yesterday HQ of TISA party.
04:35It's not a huge surprise because, actually, there was a record turnout,
04:40what we experienced yesterday here in Hungary,
04:42and the highest was here in the capital, in Budapest,
04:45and most of the people who were living here, they supported the opposition,
04:49so they had a reason to celebrate.
04:52Of course, everybody knows that not everything is going to change overnight,
04:57but something already changed.
04:59The European patriots, they organized a press conference today,
05:03and they canceled it after the results.
05:06Peter Magyar, yesterday, in his victory speech,
05:09urged the president to appoint him as a prime minister as soon as possible,
05:15and after signing out.
05:17And also, he urged several investigation authorities and politicians
05:23to leave from the politics.
05:26He admitted that these days will be crucial and extremely difficult,
05:31but he promised one thing,
05:33that he will not let to run anyone after 16 years of corruption.
05:38Thank you so much for that live update from the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
05:45Now, EU leaders are jubilant over the outcome of the Hungarian elections
05:48after 16 years of working alongside an uncooperative Eurosceptic,
05:53Viktor Orban.
05:54Congratulations, messages have been pouring in from all across the continent,
05:57from Kiev to Dublin.
05:58For more on this new chapter of EU history,
06:00we can turn to Jean-Michel, the former EU Council president
06:03and former Belgian Prime Minister.
06:05Welcome.
06:05Good morning.
06:06Tell us your reaction to the news.
06:08That's a very important moment for the EU,
06:10and it's also a historic moment for the future of Hungary.
06:13And I feel that based on this result,
06:15it will be possible to have more European unity.
06:18And also, I think it's a clear signal of support for Ukraine
06:22that's very important in the current context.
06:24And let's be clear, there's also a defeat for the White House.
06:28And did you expect this?
06:29Yeah, look, the polls gave the indication
06:32that we were close to such a result,
06:34but until the end, we never know.
06:35And today, I think that that's an important step for more European unity.
06:42And I hope that it will allow the European Union to be more integrated,
06:46to be more ambitious,
06:48and finally, to make the decisions to make this European sovereignty not a slogan,
06:53but to make it a reality.
06:55Well, you've spent many EU summits inside there with Viktor Orban.
07:00Will we see less drama now that he's gone?
07:02I don't know, because, in fact,
07:04it's not because Viktor Orban is not any more member of the European Council,
07:08that suddenly everything will be easy.
07:11We found that within the European Union, we have to be lucid about it.
07:13But it's absolutely clear that when you stop it,
07:17especially our relationship with Ukraine, our relationship with the White House,
07:21the role played by Hungary was a disturbing role.
07:24And you mentioned Ukraine.
07:26Of course, the €90 billion loan is still being held because of Hungary.
07:30Could that be released now with the change of government?
07:32There is no reason anymore to wait.
07:34And I expect the European institutions to make bold and great decisions.
07:38And it's absolutely essential because I think it's more than ever the Ukraine deserve our support.
07:44And what about the frozen funding for Hungary that's also been on hold
07:49because of rule of law issues and corruption issues in Hungary?
07:52Should that be turned around next?
07:53Look, I'm a strong supporter of the rule of law.
07:56And now we have to see how the new government in Hungary will manage
08:01and will put in place reforms that are needed.
08:04It will give the signals that what they have announced before the elections
08:08will become a reality in the country, which will allow, I suppose,
08:12the European institutions to make decisions in favour of unleashing the financing for Hungary.
08:20And Donald Trump sent J.D. Vance to Budapest last week.
08:24But it seems that the MAGA move is just not so attractive for Europeans.
08:27It made me very happy because it means that the European voters,
08:31at least the Hungarian voters, are not intimidated, are not destabilised,
08:34even when we see and when we face such a level of political interferences.
08:41I don't remember in European history an American president participating in a political meeting
08:48through a phone call to express such a level of support.
08:51Was that foreign interference?
08:52That's an interference, for sure.
08:54That's something which is not usual among allies, among friends.
08:58We don't act that way.
09:00And it means, I repeat again what I said several times,
09:03that the list of our differences with the United States is getting longer and longer.
09:09And I don't blame the United States.
09:11I just think that the EU, we have to face our own responsibilities
09:15and to make our own decisions and to be more assertive
09:18in promoting our values and defending our interests.
09:21OK, let's see if anything changes.
09:23Sian-Michel, former Belgian Prime Minister and former EU Council President,
09:25thank you so much for speaking to us here on Euronews on Europe Today.
09:29And in case you're sitting there wondering who exactly is Peter Maillard,
09:32the 45-year-old Conservative MEP,
09:34who's after dethroning long-term Prime Minister Viktor Orban,
09:38or Jakob Janos, brings us this report.
09:42Ladies and gentlemen, the fight is over
09:44and we have a winner in the Hungarian elections.
09:47Seems like now we can all go home.
09:49Or can we?
09:50You see, elections are always a mirror of societies.
09:54And the Hungarian vote, with its plot twists,
09:56Russian scandals, MAGA connections and a flood of AI deepfakes,
10:00provides us with the lens for which we can see much deeper into the continent's future.
10:04And to see that, we must go back to the start.
10:07So, who is Peter Magyar and what does his election really mean for Hungary and Europe?
10:15Meet Peter, the ultimate insider-turned-whistleblower.
10:19And from the very start, this lawyer and former diplomat was a product of Hungary's conservative elite.
10:25Married for over a decade to Orban's former Justice Minister,
10:29he had a front row seat to the government's inner workings.
10:32But when a child abuse pardon scandal forced her resignation in 2024,
10:37Magyar used this crisis to defect and expose the regime.
10:41And learning from previous opposition leaders' electoral failures,
10:46he realized uniting with the old, fragmented opposition was a dead end.
10:50So instead, he ruthlessly bypassed them,
10:54absorbing frustrated voters to build his TISA movements entirely from scratch.
10:59And he proved his electoral viability during the last European Parliament elections,
11:04capturing nearly 30% of the votes,
11:06and securing a crucial seat as an MEP for himself.
11:11And in yesterday's elections,
11:13Magyar campaigned on a strict promise of anti-corruption,
11:16vowing to dismantle state insider networks,
11:19rebuild public services,
11:21and hold the ruling elite accountable.
11:23Yet, Magyar completely rejects the illiberal label.
11:28And by wrapping himself in the national flag,
11:30and adapting patriotic rhetoric,
11:33he successfully captured rural conservative voters,
11:36feeling abandoned by economic failures.
11:39Magyar also maintained an iron grip on his party.
11:42To avoid previous campaign's gaffes,
11:44he centralized all messaging around himself,
11:48demanding total discipline.
11:49And in Brussels,
11:51Europe should expect an immediate pivot back to the Western mainstream,
11:55as Magyar aims to repair broken institutional trust with the EU and NATO.
12:00However, defeating Orbán does not mean a return to a polite-centric consensus.
12:04No, no, no.
12:05To dismantle this political machine and win,
12:08Magyar had to adapt its harshness.
12:11And with his top-down party management,
12:13he might represent a cold-blooded new era
12:16for pro-European rights.
12:23Jakob Janus reporting for us there.
12:26Now, European political parties have been reacting to the election outcome,
12:29with the Greens calling at the end of, quote,
12:31Orbán's corrupt power machine,
12:32and the Liberals saying Hungarians have reclaimed democracy.
12:36For more reactions, we can cross back now to our Maria Tadeo in Budapest,
12:39who's joined by the Dutch MEP from the Greens,
12:42Tynika Striek.
13:11Yes, Maeve, good morning.
13:13And foreign policy.
13:14So this would really mean Hungary comes back into Europe
13:18and form part of a constructive coalition.
13:20It would also mean that, as Magyar has promised to bring back the money,
13:26that he is also ready to do a lot of reforms that are necessary
13:31to get the European values and the European rules again being complied with here.
13:37And you mentioned Peter Magyar.
13:39Would you have voted for him if you were a Hungarian?
13:41Because I struggled to see the two of you on the same ideological line.
13:44You know, for strategic reasons, I would definitely have voted for him.
13:50And you see that with many progressive voters here,
13:55their first primary goal was a defeat of Orbán.
13:59And that could only take place with the victory of Peter Magyar.
14:03And especially now, this is two-third majority, this landslide victory,
14:08it would mean that he is capable of doing the reforms
14:11that people are desperately longing for.
14:14And your party group in the European Parliament
14:17has many times said Viktor Orbán was an autocrat, autocratic leader.
14:21Yesterday, he conceded very quickly and very clearly.
14:23Were you surprised by that?
14:25Yes, I was definitely surprised because he was challenging already
14:28before the outcome that there might have been interference
14:33from the EU or irregularities or whatever.
14:37So I was surprised that he did it so quickly.
14:40It doesn't mean, of course, that therefore he was not an autocrat.
14:43But, you know, I would have thought that he would have clinged
14:47to power more long and more fiercely.
14:50Just very quickly, was this also a defeat for Maga and J.D. Vance?
14:53The endorsement, it was for nothing.
14:55Yes, exactly.
14:56Actually, it had the opposite effect.
15:00I mean, he, Orbán, was trying to be the peach pigeon.
15:04And then at the same time, if you invite warmongering politicians,
15:09that doesn't work.
15:10And I think people, Europeans, really get fed up with Trump's policies,
15:15rhetorics, but also the economic policies that are affecting people here very much.
15:21Of course, and that will be interesting to watch.
15:22Thank you so much as we continue elections across Europe.
15:26Maeve.
15:27Okay, Maria Teseo, thank you so much for that.
15:29And of course, to Tinnikistrik, your guest.
15:31And now to dive deeper into what the news will mean for Brussels, Budapest ties.
15:35I'm joined here in the studio by Euronews' political reporter, Jorge Lebrero.
15:40Jorge, last night, European leaders were very quick to congratulate the TISA party.
15:45Tell us more.
15:45It was an extraordinary moment, Maeve, for the whole European Union.
15:49And I think the reactions from leaders reflected that.
15:53I think the most appropriate reaction for us to read would be from Ursula von der Leyen,
15:58the president of the European Commission,
16:00the person who has featured in Orbán's campaign as an adversary to the whole of Hungary.
16:05This is what the president said.
16:08Hungary has chosen Europe.
16:10Europe has always chosen Hungary.
16:12A country reclaims its European path.
16:15The union grows stronger.
16:16And I think the second sentence, Europe has always chosen Hungary, is the key here.
16:22Because she's saying that the door for Hungary was always open.
16:26It was Viktor Orban who decided to shut this door.
16:29So what will this all mean now for the relationship going forward?
16:32I think the potential is enormous.
16:33Yes, the challenges are enormous.
16:35I agree with that.
16:36But so is the potential.
16:37And we really need to undermine this, to underline this, sorry.
16:41I think 16 years of power, you know, many people in this city don't remember Hungary before Orbán.
16:49Hungary and Orbán have become synonymous with each other, you know, like impossible to distinguish.
16:55So now we can see a different Hungary, a Hungary with a different attitude,
16:59a Hungary that wants to be part of the conversation, that wants to be constructed,
17:03that is not abusing the veto power just for the sake of it.
17:06So just the change of attitude towards the European Union is fundamental here.
17:11And the potential, I have to say it again, is enormous right now.
17:14OK, thank you so much for those insights.
17:17And of course, Viktor Orban's defeat is a huge blow to both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump,
17:22who had supported Viktor Orban since the start, with, as you heard, the US Vice President,
17:26Jenny Vance, even spending a couple of days in Budapest last week drumming up support for Viktor Orban.
17:32For more, we can cross back to Budapest, to the beautiful boat on the Danube,
17:36where our Maria Tadeo is joined now by the Hungarian MEP Andres Laszlo from the Fidesz party,
17:41which were, of course, the losers of the night.
17:43Maria?
17:46Well, yes, of course, Maeve.
17:47And he's not had a good night.
17:49Sir, let's go straight into the defeat.
17:52It was a clear defeat.
17:54Why?
17:55What did you get wrong?
17:57Well, the voters obviously want to change.
18:00We were, and Prime Minister Orban was in power for 16 years.
18:04We had four consecutive electoral victories, which is unprecedented in Hungary.
18:09We've had some of these in other countries, but not in Hungary.
18:12So this is definitely something which will be in the history books of Hungarian politics.
18:16But people have, I think, may have grown tired.
18:20They want change in certain policies.
18:21And, of course, what we see all across Europe is that there is a, or there was a cost of
18:26living crisis in every country.
18:27And those who are in government always have a difficult time when it comes to elections.
18:31And this worked against us this time.
18:34What about the Russia connection?
18:35The tapes came out.
18:36Many Hungarians that I spoke with yesterday on the streets, they said that they thought it was a disgrace, the
18:41idea of Hungarians working so closely with Russia.
18:44Or what they perceived as now Hungary doing the dirty job of Russia.
18:47Is that something that ultimately you paid for yesterday at the ballot box?
18:51Well, look, our relations with Russia are pragmatic.
18:54We have a dependency.
18:56We are a landlocked country.
18:57We have a dependency on energy imports.
18:59We have only very few pipelines supplying Hungary with natural gas, with crude oil.
19:05And, obviously, we didn't get the kind of, we didn't have the kind of possibilities to import from any parts
19:13of the world.
19:13When you hear in the metro, and we heard this ourselves, Russians go home.
19:17What does that say to you?
19:19Well, look, in Hungary, the opposition parties going back decades were always anti-Russia because it's popular to take that
19:26position.
19:27But the reality is, the reality is that materially, we are in a region between Germany, between Russia, and our
19:35dependencies are strong economically.
19:38And, therefore, any kind of government who is in power in Hungary needs to have a pragmatic relations with Russia.
19:43And the reality, however, is that Fidesz was punished heavily at the polls.
19:48Was this a punishment for the party or Prime Minister Viktor Orban?
19:51He conceded very quickly, but is this the end now, Viktor Orban, and his political project, this idea of a
19:56democracy that is no longer liberal?
19:59Well, we have a democracy, period.
20:03And I think Hungarians like that.
20:05In Hungary, we've had the most corrupt liberal party in the recent days.
20:10What about Viktor Orban?
20:11Is this the end?
20:12Is there support for him?
20:13Well, I don't think it's the end for Mr. Orban.
20:15We have had a very strong and strong show of solidarity for him last night, despite the election loss.
20:24And I think Fidesz is still a very strong party.
20:29We scored 38 percent from government.
20:31Of course, this was far short for a victory.
20:34But at the same time, I think what was also a historic moment is that all of the former communist
20:42parties, the socialist parties, are gone from the Hungarian parliament.
20:46The Greens are gone from the Hungarian parliament.
20:48So this is not only a new government.
20:49It's also a new opposition in Hungary.
20:52But it did play to the benefit of Peter Magyar, of course.
20:54And we will continue our discussions today.
20:58Maeve, let's go back to you as we monitor reactions from Budapest.
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