Hungarian opposition leader Magyar celebrates election win in Budapest

(13 Apr 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

TISZA PARTY HANDOUT
Budapest, Hungary - 12 April 2026
++LOGO FROM SOURCE++
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of celebration
2. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Péter Magyar, election victor:
"Tisza and Hungary have won this election."
3. Various of event
4. Tisza party leader and election victor, Péter Magyar, walking through crowd
5. Magyar walking
6. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Péter Magyar, election victor:
++SOUNDBITE IS OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3-5++
"We won not small but big, - very, very big. Together we changed the Orbán regime, together we liberated Hungary, we took our homeland back."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Budapest, Hungary - 12 April 2026
++NIGHT SHOTS++
7. Various of Tisza party supporters in streets
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrien Rixer, Hungarian living in UK:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT 7 AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 9++
”I came back home from London, because I really wanted to make my vote count, and I’m over the moon, I just can’t believe it. And I hope we are going to get 2/3 and then, oh my God, finally I can say that I’m a proud Hungarian, finally after 16 years.”
9. Various of celebrations
STORYLINE:
In a speech to tens of thousands of jubilant supporters at a victory party along the Danube River on Sunday in Budapest, Péter Magyar said his voters had rewritten Hungarian history.

“We won not small but big - very, very big. Together we changed the Orbán regime, together we liberated Hungary, we took our homeland back," he said.

On the streets of Budapest, drivers blared car horns and cranked up anti-government songs while people marching in the streets chanted and screamed.

Turnout in the election was nearly 80%, according to the National Election Office, a record number in any vote in Hungary’s post-Communist history.

Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions.

It was a stunning blow for Orbán — a close ally of both U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — who quickly conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result.

It's not yet clear whether Magyar’s Tisza party will have the two-thirds majority in parliament, which would give it the numbers needed for major changes in legislation.

AP Video shot by Florent Bajrami

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