While i’m happy Órban is out, do remember that Magyar is Órban-lite and Órban spent 16 years ensuring he’ll be hard to get rid of. Magyar may’ve won the election but he’s not in the clear yet.
It was a good day
Good job, friends. Now, a republic once again… if you can keep it.
Most important: it’s even a 2/3 majority. Without that, Orban could have still blocked most of the changes. Now, he cannot.
looked set to win 94 of Hungary’s 106 voting districts.
Hell yeah.
He’s probably packing his suitcases for an “extended stay” in Russia. And some of them will be packed with money and gold…
in Russia.
or the US, he has options.
Maybe he’ll go to Albania with Eric Adams.
In the back of my head, I’m slightly worried when a European country has a party that has more than 50% of the seats. We’re supposed to not be two-party systems.
But on every other part of my head, this feels great. Good stuff, hungarians! I wish I had free money to invest into Hungary. Seems like a safe bet right now.
As I understand it, Orban has rewritten the laws so the biggest party gets an unproportional amount of seats. Works well when you are able to keep the opposition fractured, but less well when your comeuppance finally arrives.
Other EU countries have a similar unfair system. They’re quite easy to spot because they usually have 2 parties that get 90%+ of the seats.
Once that system is in place, the incentives of the party in power are to keep it, because they’d lose a supermajority if they win the next election cycle.
I honestly don’t know how you could fix the system once it’s so entrenched. I think it can only change if people become aware of how their shitty political situation (only 2 viable parties) is entirely created by this electoral system, and somehow demand a change.
Hopefully the new party will roll back those laws and make it more fair in future.
Couch fucking, pope killing, election fucking loser
They need to stop letting the couch fucker meet with people… he obviously represents a bad omen for their cult, and it’s showing
nono, let them
bye Felicia 👋
thanks Vance 👍❤️🇺🇸
First the Pope, now Orban’s government, what next!
Also Canada.
Hopefully he’s still in office to come to Australia in mid 2028 and ensure us a Labor/Greens victory.
I think you know who 🤞
Apparently, Trump is immune.
Or doesn’t hang out with Vance, which would be a very rare thing he and I agree on
Quick go visit Putin!
He fucked up the Iran deal.
The israelis would regardless.
I hope he at least ate some nice goulash and lángos, otherwise not much point of dropping by
You just know that he had someone pick up McD
or, you know, whatever made sense at the time…
Nice cat. Is Vance popular at all? Cause it looks he is angrier and less charismatic version of Trump. It looks that even hard core far-right don’t like him
vance quickly ditched hungary for IRAN.
The polls for Orban went down after Vance’s endorsement visit. That’s how populair he is.
lol, no, not at all. only the MAGA die-hards like him, but not all that much.
I think there are a few fringe movements that don’t hate him, but he’s literally where he is as a threat to anyone who would impeach Trump.
Last time I checked, impeachment would get rid of the whole admin: pres, vice and secretaries. Maybe you mean the 25th.
No, everyone either actively hates or barely tolerates the couch fucking pope killer.
Brilliant news for Hungary, Europe and Ukraine.
Now let’s watch the theatrics of Vance crying about interference.
I must admit, even though he was down in the polls, I still expected him to win somehow. It gives me a little glimmer of hope that the world may not become an authoritarian hellscape.
I didn’t really expect him to lose. But I had serious doubts if he would get out of the government after it.
But then, I don’t know the details.
Even if he lost with a close result, he could have blocked lots of change. Fortunately, his opponent has a 2/3 majority, so Orban can’t do anything. 😃
If the loss is big enough, there is no way to get the foot in the door, might not waste the political capital of a tantrum to keep doing damage leading opposition.
The massive turnout also made it impossible to pull anything funny. It’s relatively easy to slip in a few thousands of fake votes when you control the electoral apparatus, but trying to skew such a lopsided election with such an high participation rate would create participation rates above 100% in some places.
And the loss is basically a wipeout. They are practically irrelevant in Parliament, and Tisza, unlike in Poland, can just boot out any of their appointees as they have a supermajority.
Thank you, people of Hungary. You rock
Thanks for sending J.D. Vance our way, it definitely helped!
I am getting the feeling that JD is not really talented in politics
I’m very proud of Hungary. Even with the media capture and social media bombardment, the nation saw through the fog. And that voter turnout percentage is something I’ve never heard of in my lifetime in my country.
Budapest shouts “Russians out”, in memory of the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and against the Putin asset they ousted today.
Someone please tell me the opposition winner is legit and not another Russian stooge
He’s legit, no worries on that front. Implementing policies and promises - let’s see, but I’m optimistic
Hard to tell right now. He used to be one of Orban’s buddies up until a few years ago. He’s saying the right things right now - less corruption, more services for Hungarians, closer ties to the EU and NATO.
But we’ll see. From what I understand, Orban was also seen as a progressive about 20 years ago. But then Putin and greed got their hooks into him. Hopefully the new guy is legit.
If he is legit, I wonder his this will shift the dynamic in the EU. Without Hungary vetoing everything Putin doesn’t like, does this clear the path more for Ukraine joining the EU and/or NATO? I know there are a lot of other factors in okay. But the people of Hungary might have just helped others and not just themselves.
C’mon, guy is a lot of things but not a friend to Russia
Let’s hope he doesn’t suffer from sudden and acute defenestration.
That will truly be a major test. Man, I’m hoping for a legitimate win for once. This could be the biggest shift since Carney’s victory in Canada. I’ve also sadly seen how gullible people can believe lies like, “America First” and “No New Wars,” and take a pathological liar at their word. Leaving aside the longer-term games being played by billionaires.
Here’s hoping for the best. I’m just honestly a bit shocked that he relinquished power this easily.
There’s another EU member with a russian stooge in power, isn’t there? I could be wrong but I think it was Slovakia that recently elected one.
Still great news that Orban is out.
I was gonna say Belarus but they’re not in the EU.
Holy shit, fantastic result! Orban deserved that lol
