Orbán Steps Down from Hungarian Parliament After Fidesz Landslide Defeat, Vows Party Rebuild

Analysis
Orban's decision to vacate his parliamentary seat while retaining the Fidesz presidency is a calculated partition of personal risk from institutional control. He very likely retains the party leadership at the June congress, given 36 years of unchallenged control and no named internal challenger. European precedent suggests personality-defined parties that lose supermajority-scale elections rarely rebuild under the same leader within a single cycle: UK Labour post-2019, French Socialists post-2017. The 138-seat Tisza supermajority now controls constitutional amendment authority, the same tool Orban used to reshape Hungary's judiciary and media, making the next 12 months a window for institutional reversal that narrows as Tisza's political capital decays.