The Hungarian prime minister concedes to Péter Magyar, who is set to win a supermajority in the 199-seat parliament.
as a Hungarian I’m over the moon 🎆🎆🎆
as non-Hungarians we’re also over the moon 🎆 🎆 🎆
I see many “but he is also far right” comments. Peter Magyar might be on the right side of the scale, but he did not base his program on far right rhetoric at all. Its also impressive how many world class experts Magyar got for his party for major ministry roles. Many businessman and leaders from other sectors. Its a bit similar to the ruling change after the communism ended in Hungary, when instead of politicians, scientists, recognized intellectuals and experts got the ministry roles.
They seems to want to focus on repairing the damage, what Orbans gang caused, getting back all the EU funds and building up basic systems, like education and healthcare from scratch.
I’m part Hungarian and did not have a right to vote, but followed closely the whole thing and it might not look like it, but its a huuuge thing. All my Hungarian friends/colleagues are celebrating, after all they got rid of a cancerous tumor.
I’m not aware of the finer details of Magyars platform - What are his plans for all the Orban supporting public servants / judges etc.?
It sounds like root and branch reforms are incoming. It could be a great template for… certain other nations.I hope that Magyar follows post-far right Poland on dismantling the far right loyalist media and judges.
During his victory speech yesterday he called on them to resign immediately. He also said there would be no mercy only accountability.
Pretty much he promised to get rid of everyone who was an active member of the corrupt system. Also he plans to destroy all propaganda media, and wants to go after the oligarchs as well.
Its a lot and we will se how much he manages to fulfill of the promises, but if they manage to achieve only fractions of it, Hungary will be already a better place.
I see many “but he is also far right” comments.
It’s also interesting to note that Orban didn’t used to be far right. He was sort of moderate and even on the scholarship program of George Soros back in the day.
How did Hungarians get there first place? (to elect Orban)
The west supported Navalny, an ultra-nationalist literally shooting muslims in a video and calling them cockroaches, fully in favor of invading ukraine for creating a great empire.
What matters is anti-Putin in this case.
We support anyone willing to be our puppet, as shown recently when they whitewashed the headchopper Jolani.
Put him in a suit, cut his terrorist beard and now he gets the red carpet treatment.who is “we” ?
The ‘free and democratic’ west of course.
This does give me a small sliver of hope.
Now do Putin
Lovely work! So much appeal!
Oh and the lady character and the goose are cute too! :p
Had no idea those comics were Hungarian, rad
he even conceded:
In a surprisingly early and gracious concession speech in Budapest, Mr. Orban congratulated the opposition saying, “The responsibility and opportunity to govern were not given to us.” But, he also made a vow: “We are not giving up. Never, never, never.”
This is the part that makes me suspicious about the whole thing. No way would a tick like Orban just admit defeat. They would at least insinuate that the election was not quite right.
Couldn’t stuff the ballot boxes fast enough, eh?
As I understand, Hungarian elections were voted as “free, but not fair” by observers.
I.e the ballots would get counted properly, but Orban’s gerrymandered it into oblivion, most media belongs to Orban’s friends, etc. The winning party had every possible disadvantage short of Fidesz actually messing with the ballots themselves.
How long will it take before he elopes to Moscow to evade corruption charges? And how much has he stolen to finance a lavish lifestyle there?
If Hungarians will go the Polish way - never. But I wish them to success in defeating those pieces of shit for good.
Finally! Congratulations to the Hungarian voters who voted against the fucking Russian and MAGA stooge. Welcome back to the EU!
Great!
But let’s not rest on our laurels.
The next step is getting green and social democratic candidates that will garner attention and excite voters, and have a chance to do a good job that will show people that they need to vote in their best interest and those who will defend them.
Conservative liberals are way better than dictators, particularly when they like to sprinkle social policies like taxing the wealthiest more and using the revenue for public services, but they also tend to do stuff that lets things ratchet back to oligarchy.
We also should get the UK to turn back, and Poland, Italy and others to wake up too. And many are still in the edge.
I know! Let’s get Vance to do a tour through Europe! Having him endorse all the people he likes the most! That’ll show the people who they can’t trust.
Yes, this message is so important. I remember how stoked everyone was initially when Starmer won the UK after more than a decade of Tory bs, and now look at the neo-conservative state of his party.
Don’t let Hungary fall into the same trap! Push back!
Man its really hard to enjoy good news these days when you know the grim reality of your own country’s future… and what could have been.
Channel your inner pissed off hungarian and swarm that ballot box
I will be voting, I want decent hospice care for my country.
it’s what it can be that motivates us
There aren’t any good outcomes for the US for the next few decades. Just bad and worse. I’ll be long dead before any real improvement happens.
I’m not American but I know how you feel. Even in Japan, my choices are less bad vs bad and the only thing I can do is keep voting for the former.
I try to get involved with community events to at least make my small circle of influence a happy place for everyone.
It will be if that’s your train of thought. You are not powerless as much as your gov and your tech will tell you.
I am powerless in comparison to mass stupidity.
But also the government could also turn me into red mist if it wanted.
One fascist less. Congratulations to Hungary!
This post has been on the top of my home feed all day and it brought a smile to my face every time I opened Lemmy lol
Ew, politico 🤢
Here, a non Politico article that is actually pretty complete and detailed on all the surroundings of this election.
https://euobserver.com/210869/orban-era-is-over-as-tisza-scores-historic-victory-in-hungary/
They try to “both sides” a bit but this is basically too lopsided. The article is mainly factual and talks about Orbans corruption and jury rigging of the government.
That’s not the issue. The issue with Politico is it’s owned by Axel Springer SE, a german publisher that also has BILD, Welt and Fakt (polish) in its portfolio, some of the biggest culprits of pushing the overton window to the right in Europe. Plus the CEO of Axel Springer SE, Mathias Döpfner, personally pushes right wingers and neoliberalists, he endorsed Trump ahead of the 2020 election, told the BILD editors to push the FDP (german neoliberal party) ahead of the 2021 german federal election, called J.D. Vance’s speech at Munic Security Conference, where Vance called for ending Europe’s far right parties’ isolation, “inspiring” and endorses Benjamin Netanjahu.
I don’t want to give clicks to such corporations and people.
Some context about Bild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Honour_of_Katharina_Blum
I personally haven’t seen this extremely, extremely questionable ownership affect their (non-opinion news) writing though, unlike Murdoch and WSJ. So I won’t rely on it but I won’t question them until they publish weird stuff yet either.
Great, now put Orban in prison for his crimes against democracy so he can’t come back.
Magyar is just proposing a modification of the constitution (well, it’s not literally called the constitution, but imagine something similar) so that nobody can be the prime minister for more than 2 terms.
