End of an era: Why did Hungary vote out far-right's Orban?

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Eurosceptics may come and go... but there's only one Viktor Orban. It took 16 years and Sunday's record turnout in Hungary to vote out the seemingly unbeatable far-right leader who once boasted of building an illiberal state. Why did the far-right idol of Magaworld finally fall out of favor? And not just by a nose: “The Hungarian people didn’t vote for a simple change of government, but for a complete change in regime,” boasts prime minister-in-waiting Peter Magyar. How will the once-ally-turned-pro-EU conservative turn his constitutional supermajority into a rolling back of Orban's consolidation of power.
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