Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (right) and US Vice President JD Vance shake hands after a joint press conference in Budapest, Hungary, April 7, 2026. | Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images
Under normal circumstances, an election in Hungary — a landlocked Central European country of less than 10 million — would not be a major world event. But for the past 16 years, Hungary has not been a normal country.
After Prime Minister Viktor Orbán won a massive victory in Hungary’s 2010 election, he almost immediately began changing the country’s system of government to ensure he would n...
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