Hungary's new parliament has three parties. That is all. Tisza took 138 of 199 seats — a constitutional supermajority. Fidesz-KDNP, the party Viktor Orbán built into a European byword for democratic backsliding, collapsed to 55. And Mi Hazánk, the far-right party that most analysts expected to vanish in the Tisza wave, cleared the 5 percent threshold with 6 seats. [1]

Record turnout — 77.8 percent — delivered the clearest mandate in Hungary's post-communist history. Tisza's supermajority means it can amend the constitution without any other party's consent, a power Orbán himself once wielded to reshape the judiciary, media law, and electoral rules. DW's coverage focused on the EU-Hungary thaw this enables, with Brussels already signaling relief that the Orbán era is over. [2]

But the arithmetic contains a quieter fact. Mi Hazánk's survival means the far right retains a parliamentary voice even after the electorate repudiated Orbán. Six seats is not power. It is a platform — committee assignments, floor speeches, state funding, and the legitimacy that comes from clearing a threshold designed to exclude marginal movements.

On X, the mood was celebration: Orbán gone, democracy restored, EU relations normalized. Almost no one paused on the 6 seats. MSM treated Mi Hazánk as a statistical footnote. Both platforms missed the structural point: the far right in Hungary has survived its patron's defeat. It is smaller, weaker, and irrelevant to governance. But it is still in the room.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels