Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat after his opponent Péter Magyar’s landslide victory. Far-right authoritarian leader Orbán had been in power for 16 years and made a number of major changes to the country’s constitution to weaken the judiciary.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Gábor Scheiring, an assistant professor at Georgetown University Qatar and a former lawmaker in Hungary.
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