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Rebuilding democracy in Hungary

NPR | By Rob Schmitz,

Michael Levitt

Published August 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM EDT

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Over the course of his 16 years as Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orbán eroded the country's democratic institutions. Now a new government is in power and is working to fix it.