How a visit by Pope Francis helped lead to the crushing defeat of Viktor Orban

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Now he leads a centre right much more moderate pro-EU government removing the last anti-Brussels government in the bloc.
46% : At the time of her resignation she was the driving force behind putting together a rightwing anti-EU coalition for the European Parliament elections.
46% : It also now frees up the EU to take much tougher action against Putin over Ukraine and removes the last politician in the bloc who had the ear of Trump.
40% : The departure of Orban was largely the result of scandal and political hubris but it has removed the intellectual network which has sustained many on the right across the globe with close links to Likud in Israel, Trump and the MAGA movement in the US and those circulating around Nigel Farage and Reform in the UK.
36% : People pouring over the crushing defeat of Viktor Orban's government in Hungary - the most rightwing in Europe - will draw the conclusions that his antipathy to the EU, closeness to Vladimir Putin, failure to address younger voters and a sense of political corruption were at the heart of his downfall.

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