Peter Magyar, once a staunch loyalist of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has ended his mentor’s 16-year rule after his Tisza party won Sunday’s parliamentary election by a landslide.With votes in 97.35 percent of precincts counted early on Monday, Magyar’s centre-right party has secured 138 seats in the 199-seat parliament and 53.6 percent of the vote. Orban’s Christian nationalist Fidesz party won 55 seats with 37.8 percent of the votes, according to official results.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIn a victory speech to tens of thousands of supporters gathered along the Danube River in the capital, Budapest, on Sunday, 45-year-old Magyar said: “Tonight, truth prevailed over lies.”“Today, we won because Hungarians didn’t ask what their homeland could do for them; they asked what they could do for their homeland. You found the answer. And you followed through.”But who is Magyar? And what does his victory mean for Hungary and the rest of the world?Who is Magyar, once a staunch Orban loyalist?Peter Magyar, whose last name literally means Hungarian, was born in Budapest in March 1981 into a family of lawyers. He is also the great-nephew of Ferenc Madl, who was president of Hungary from 2000 to 2005, overlapping with part of Orban’s first term as prime minister (1998-2002).After completing his education with a degree in law at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University near Budapest in 2004, he started his career in corporate law. At university, he join …
