Europe celebrates as Orbán's stunning defeat deals a blow to Putin and Trump

The structure of the last 16 years has been so entrenched and so much concerned with capturing all the commanding heights of the Hungarian state that it will take quite some time for anyone to unravel this,” said Jonathan Eyal, associated director of the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London....But there are a series of official bodies stuffed with Orbán loyalists who have taken power away from Hungary's parliament to make policy, Eyal pointed out, as well as a powerful constitutional court full of his appointees. "So sweeping away all these cobwebs is not something that could happen after a party on the Danube River," Eyal warned. "Magyar is not exactly a dissident that has emerged out of pure thin air into the new leader," Eyal said. "So there is a legitimate question about how much of a break this is from someone who clearly shared some of the Orbán government's views for a lot of his political career." Whatever happens, this result is blow to the regime in Moscow, Eyal added. "Most Hungarian voters when they're asked, they say we don't want to be part of Russia, we want to be part of Europe," he said. "And so this is a very major lesson for far right."