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Péter Magyar wins Hungarian election landslide with two-thirds supermajority

Magyar plans to suspend state news broadcasts to break the propaganda machinery

The Hungarian state broadcaster M1 spent the early hours of Sunday’s election night reporting on the deer rutting season in Szombathely while the 16-year reign of Viktor Orbán collapsed in real-time. It took the channel another hour to report Orbán’s defeat after other media outlets had already confirmed the result. This surreal avoidance summarized the … Weiterlesen …