A little over a month after the failed referendum on compulsory refugee quotas, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, was defeated again on Tuesday 8 November because Hungarian parliamentarians did not back his planned amendment to the country’s constitution to ban the European refugee sharing programme.
The prime minister announced the amendment despite the fact that the 2 October referendum was ruled unlawful due to low turnout. On Tuesday 8 November, Orban failed by two votes,...