India, April 13 -- Viktor Orban, Hungary's nationalist leader and a longstanding ally of United States President Donald Trump, lost to conservative Peter Magyar in elections held on Sunday after being in power for 16 years.

According to the official poll results, Magyar's party gained 137 seats out of the 199 parliamentary seats in Hungary by the time 67 percent of precincts were counted, giving Magyar a landslide victory.

"The election results, though not yet final, are clear and understandable; for us, they are painful but unambiguous," Orban said while talking to reporters.

"We have not been entrusted with the responsibility and opportunity to govern. I congratulated the winning party," he added.

This defeat comes at a time when th...