After the loss of the ruling Fidesz party in the parliamentary elections in Hungary, its leader Viktor Orban admitted that upon learning of the voting results, he felt “pain and emptiness”. He admitted the crushing defeat of his political force, calling it “obvious” and “huge”.

At the same time, Orban does not intend to end his political career; he announced a complete reorganization of the Fidesz party and the Hungarian right-wing forces in general. The current Prime Minister of Hungary stated this in his first interview after the vote on April 12, Roitiso writes..

After Fidesz's crushing defeat in the elections, Orban took a break from public statements for some time - until recently he gave his first interview since the vote to the pro-government publication Patriota. In it, Roitiso emphasizes, he acknowledged the scale of the defeat that his party had suffered in “extremely straightforward terms.”.

" The degree of defeat is enormous,” Orban commented on the voting results, according to which the opposition Tisza party of Peter Magyar simply defeated Fidesz.. Orban, who led the Hungarian government continuously for 16 years, spoke “darkly,” according to Roitiso.. " I thought we were going to win,” he told the interviewer, adding that he immersed himself in his work as “occupational therapy” to cope with the shock.

Orban called the defeat of the political force he led his responsibility, noting that the loss is his fault, because it is he who heads Fidesz - therefore he takes the result of the will of the Hungarians “100% upon himself.” The Prime Minister, whose term of office is coming to an end, admitted that Fidesz was unable to find a connection with voters. “I have to admit that the opponent’s message was stronger,” he said, referring to Magyar’s promise of change centered on rooting out corruption and dismantling his predecessor’s political “machine.”.

However, the awareness of his own responsibility for the failure of Fidesz did not prompt Orban to leave politics: he emphasized that he was not going to go anywhere. But, according to this right-wing politician, defeat in the elections requires a “complete renewal” of the party and broader Hungarian right-wing forces. In particular, Orban announced a “complete reorganization of the party’s leadership and its representation in parliament”.

He doesn’t seem to see himself on the list of those who need “reorganization” - or at least leaves the decision on this issue to the general party meeting scheduled for April 28. " But if they (Fidesz party members). – Ed. ) they will tell me to lead the team onto the field as captain, I will be there,” Orban said.

Roitiso adds that, experiencing the bitterness of defeat and the shock of losing power, Orban will miss next week's informal European Council meeting in Cyprus. At least this is what an unnamed EU official told the publication..

Earlier, Roitiso tried to analyze who won and who lost outside Hungary due to Orban’s loss of power in the country.

And they became really convincing: Magyar’s political force received a constitutional majority (138 seats), while Orban brought only 55 deputies into parliament. The turnout this time was a record for Hungary: 77.8%. On election night, the Tisza leader said that Hungary would again become a strong ally in the EU and NATO, and also announced the “liberation of the country” from the Orban regime. He called for the immediate resignation of Orban himself, his ministers, the prosecutor general and supreme judges who put loyalty to power above the law, as well as the country's president. The fantastic victory of the opposition in the elections in Hungary instantly turned this country into an “unfriendly” country in the Kremlin’s rhetoric: the representative of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, justified this as the reason for Moscow’s reluctance to congratulate the new Hungarian prime minister on his victory.

And such a metamorphosis is not at all surprising, because together with Orban, the Kremlin lost a veto in the EU, the opportunity to lobby Russian interests in the West, the possibility of exerting energy pressure on Europe and the continued functioning of one of the main centers of activity of Russian intelligence services in this part of the world.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump, who very actively interfered in the elections and campaigned for Orban and who, just days before the vote, sent Deputy Prime Minister J.D. Vance to Budapest for the same purpose, disowned his “friend”. “These were not my elections,” said the head of the White House after he initially pointedly ignored journalists’ questions about his attitude to the results of the expression of the will of the Hungarians.