Alsina analyzes Orbán's defeat in Hungary with a Spanish perspective: "the greatly concerned one is Vox"

The presenter of More than one, Carlos Alsina, has analyzed the resounding defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary, where the ultranationalist has lost after 16 years in power against the opposition led by Péter Magyar.

The presenter started his monologue with a scene as unusual as it was illustrative: the supposed presence of Santiago Segura and his character Torrente in Budapest, turned into a cultural icon to the point of appearing tattooed in local establishments of the city. “There are fans of the saga in Hungary who tattoo Torrente's face with some of his most popular phrases”, the communicator quipped to open his political analysis.

From there, Alsina connected the anecdote with the Hungarian political context, where he highlighted the figure of Viktor Orbán, his long mandate and his role as a reference for the European populist right. The journalist underlined the change of cycle after his electoral defeat, in a reading where he links the result with the wear and tear of ultraconservative leaderships on the continent. Alsina has contextualized the change of political cycle in Europe and underlined the international impact of the result, especially within the ideologically aligned formations of the already former Hungarian prime minister. 

The analysis goes beyond the Hungarian scenario and lands in Spanish politics, “To them, to their partners and to their companies. In one same night all this has happened: Orbán has lost the elections, Putin has lost the elections, Trump has lost the elections, Abascal has lost the elections”, he began enumerating, before introducing the turn towards national politics. The communicator added that Pedro Sánchez would have rejoiced for the first time at a PP victory, considering that the new Hungarian leader, Peter Magyar, is the closest thing to the popular party in that country, an idea that would also have been celebrated by Núñez Feijóo upon seeing that more traditional European right-wing profile reinforced.

Alsina has also pointed out that the main affected by Orbán's defeat is Santiago Abascal and his party. “Seen from Spain, the greatly concerned by Orbán's defeat is Vox”, he slipped in his intervention, in which he also compared the dynamics of the European right with the Spanish formations, placing the debate in the new political balance of the continent.

According to the journalist, the electoral result symbolically weakens the formations that had turned the Hungarian leader into an international political reference.