The billionaire weighed in on Viktor Orban’s defeat in the parliamentary election The pro-EU Tisza party’s victory over Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Hungarian election means that the country has essentially been taken over by the Soros network, Elon Musk has said.In a post on X on Monday, Musk lashed out at Alexander Soros — the son of billionaire George Soros and chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) – who celebrated Orban’s fall as “a resounding rejection of entrenched corruption and foreign interference.”“Soros Organization has taken over Hungary,” the SpaceX and Tesla owner said. In a separate post, Musk responded to a post by an X user who listed figures who cheered the result – among them, former US President Barack Obama, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, and various EU officials – and wrote: “This should tell you everything.” Musk replied with a “100%” emoji. Read more Magyar beats Orban in battle for Hungary: What happens now? Musk’s comments came after Peter Magyar’s conservative Tisza party secured 138 seats in the 199-seat Hungarian parliament with 53.6% of the vote, while Orban’s right-wing Fidesz took just 55 seats with 37.8%, with an extremely high voter turnout of almost 80%.Though conservative in profile, Tisza has pledged to dismantle core pillars of Orban’s policies – drawing once again closer to the EU and NATO.Orban – who will see his 16-year tenure as prime minister come to an end – has long clashed with Soros, who was born in Hungary, accusing him of fomenting ‘woke’ ideologies, “liberal internationalism,” and an intention to turn native Europeans into a minority through an “invasion of immigrants.” Read more Battle for Hungary: Could an Orban win trigger ‘Maidan on steroids’? The Soros-founded Open Society Foundations has a strong footprint in Hungary. Between 2016 and 2023, the network spent almost $90 million to fund Hungarian-based organizations, and in the year prior to the 2022 parliamentary elections, it gave a record $17 million, according to research by the Center for Fundamental Rights. Hungary received nearly double the OSF’s average of $19 million per country across Europe and the post-Soviet region, with at least 153 organizations benefiting from Soros’s financial support, according to the report.The OSF was essentially forced to leave Hungary in 2018 after Orban passed the so-called ‘Stop Soros’ anti-migration legislation. Critics have argued that despite the move, the OSF continues to influence Hungary’s domestic political scene through alternative routes.