{"id":8689,"date":"2026-04-12T20:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/newsflash-orban-concedes-election-hungary-gets-new-government-the-counteroffensive-with-tim-mak\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:09:49","slug":"newsflash-orban-concedes-election-hungary-gets-new-government-the-counteroffensive-with-tim-mak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/newsflash-orban-concedes-election-hungary-gets-new-government-the-counteroffensive-with-tim-mak\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWSFLASH: Orb\u00e1n concedes election, Hungary gets new government &#8211; The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Our reporting takes you behind the scenes in the place where democracy is under threat. We have two reporters in Hungary tonight covering the results \u2013 support us so we can keep going!<\/em><br \/><em>Get full access to paywalled stories like this by upgrading today!<\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counteroffensive.news\/subscribe\" rel class=\"button primary\"><span>Get full access!<\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.stripe.com\/fZe29k5II6HNbE4dQQ\" rel class=\"button primary\"><span>Our tip jar!<\/span><\/a><br \/>BUDAPEST, Hungary \u2014 With 60 percent of the vote counted, Viktor Orb\u00e1n has congratulated opposition candidate Peter Magyar on winning the election.<br \/>In his concession speech in Budapest, Orb\u00e1n said the \u201celection results, although not complete, are understandable and clear. They are painful for us but unequivocal.\u201d<br \/>Today\u2019s elections hit a record turnout, with 77.8 percent of voters showing up \u2013 substantially higher than in previous elections.<br \/>The result is a setback for the Trump family and Trump administration, which had lobbied hard to support Orb\u00e1n.<br \/><em><span>After the paywall:<\/span><br \/><span>&#8211;  Our reporting from on the ground in Budapest<\/span><br \/><span>&#8211; What is special about Magyar?<\/span><br \/><span>&#8211; What does TISZA\u2019s victory mean for Ukraine?<\/span><br \/><span>&#8211; Exclusive photos and videos from the election counting gathering in Budapest.<\/span><\/em><br \/>Subscribe to <span class=\"pencraft pc-reset font-style-italic-I3_Jdy weight-bold-DmI9lw reset-IxiVJZ\">The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak<\/span> to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMieEFVX3lxTE43cTZLbWNha3V3U0x0S3dsa3ppLXZuU2hVSlAtYXdKcjNIYmxXT2Y3dmphT1ZYV0Zka2VMWGxHd1ozeFVqeUVXSk5hTDdtcFZpczFRUmtZYnA3T1MydEl4aUUwSm80TFE5dEhtT3U3bjc5d3k4TGhmNw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Our reporting takes you behind the scenes in the place where democracy is under threat. We have two reporters in Hungary tonight covering the results \u2013 support us so we can keep going!Get full access to paywalled stories like this by upgrading today!Get full access!Our tip jar!BUDAPEST, Hungary \u2014 With 60 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}