Hun­gar­i­an vot­ers on Sun­day oust­ed long-serv­ing Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Or­bán af­ter 16 years in pow­er, re­ject­ing the au­thor­i­tar­i­an poli­cies and glob­al far-right move­ment that he em­bod­ied in favour of a pro-Eu­ro­pean chal­lenger in a bomb­shell elec­tion re­sult with glob­al reper­cus­sions.

Elec­tion vic­tor Péter Mag­yar, a for­mer Or­bán loy­al­ist who cam­paigned against cor­rup­tion and on every­day is­sues like health care and pub­lic trans­port, has pledged to re­build Hun­gary’s re­la­tion­ships with the Eu­ro­pean Union and NA­TO — ties that frayed un­der Or­bán. Eu­ro­pean lead­ers quick­ly con­grat­u­lat­ed Mag­yar.

It’s not yet clear whether Mag­yar’s Tisza par­ty will have the two-thirds ma­jor­i­ty in par­lia­ment, which would give it the num­bers need­ed for ma­jor changes in leg­is­la­tion. With 77% of the vote count­ed, it had more than 53% sup­port to 38% for Or­bán’s gov­ern­ing Fidesz par­ty.