Analysis
Democratic Security
Union Jack and the White Eagle. Significance of the Poland-UK Defence Treaty
28 May 2026
9 April 2026
As someone in their late twenties, I do not remember a time when I felt proud to be Hungarian – Orbán made that difficult. He built a country many could no longer recognise as their own, yet that has begun to change, led by a generation that has never known a Hungary without him. This has already reawakened the country’s spirit in ways that will outlast any election outcome.
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The election campaign concluding on Sunday, 12 April, has already broken with the past in ways that matter far beyond election day. Since Péter Magyar’s sudden rise in 2024, politics has returned to places where it had long disappeared – not just online, not just in Budapest, but in small towns and villages where people had not seen a national politician in years. The political disengagement that defined the Orbán era appears, for now, to be receding.