Viktor Orbán wrote the modern autocrat’s playbook: Capture 80% of the media space. Tilt the electoral system in your favour. Use state power to strengthen party power. Reward loyalists. Punish critics. Make change feel impossible.
Therefore, for democratic opposition forces, it was a nearly impossible campaign landscape.
Yet, Orbán lost.
I was on the ground in Hungary as an election observer. Those days ahead of the election felt like a country holding its breath. After years in which Orbán’s rule felt permanent, many people were wondering whether election day would go smoothly at all. The surprise was not only that Péter Magyar won, as the appetite for change was clearly there, but that he won by such a landslide - and that Orbán actually conceded defeat.
The Hungarian election should be studied far beyond Budapest. Here are three lessons for democrats everywhere.
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Following a major 6-3 Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, 2026, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who served as a House Impeachment Manager during the first trial of Donald Trump in 2020, heavily criticized the Court, labeling it an "illegitimate" and "corrupt conservative majority." Furthermore, he joined other Democrats in calling for a structural overhaul of the Supreme Court, stating that "everything is on the table," including the potential expansion of the Court or the imposition of term limits, because it "is an extension of Donald Trump's influence". For the American people in the upcoming mid-term elections, this situation presents a choice: to have the next potential Speaker of the United States declaring the Supreme Court illegitimate because he disagrees with its interpretation of the law. Jeffries has thus suggested, among his proposals, that court expansion is a serious option under consideration if Democrats regain control of the House, adding six additional judges in a move that would be seen as a massive partisan shift.
El teólogo, filósofo y paleontólogo francés, 
John F. Haught
La Iglesia católica siempre ha sido objeto de interés. No faltan quienes se consideran expertos conocedores de la Iglesia, pero para ellos, la Iglesia se reduce al Vaticano, o quizás, la Santa Sede.
pertenece al Credo. Recordemos que los creyentes la proclamamos “una, santa, católica y apostólica”. Quienes estudian la Iglesia como una reflexión desde la fe se llaman eclesiólogos. También hay otras especialidades teológicas, como la Cristología, la Mariología, la Antropología teológica, la Pneumatología, entre otras.
We are living in times of change in the Americas and the world. In Venezuela, elections are urgently needed to carry out a transition of power, not one manipulated by a criminal group; in Bolivia, the restoration of the essential elements of democracy, which are currently nonexistent, is urgently needed; the end of the Cuban dictatorship, not its modernization, is an ongoing ultimatum; and the Nicaraguan regime can no longer be protected by its bourgeoisie.