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Hungary Chooses: Sovereigntism or Loyalty to Brussels?
There are many reasons behind Orbán’s defeat, but if one looks at the overall picture, it is above all worth emphasising that the Fidesz party showed signs of fatigue, its feedback mechanisms weakened, and it proved unable to break out of this situation due to a diminished capacity for self-correction. In effect, it seemed either to deceive itself, believing in an imminent victory right up to the very end—or to cynically persuade its voters of this, writes Gábor Stier.