I was very unsure that Orban hadn't rigged the election, and Hungary would become like Belarus.
I am so relieved to see that democracy worked in Hungary, despite Orban controlling most of the media.
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He controls the media in Hungary, but foreign media showed Trump, Putin and Netanyahu supporting him and suddenly everybody realised he sucks and shouldn't be trusted.
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His last name is Magyar?
His last name is basically "Hungarian" lol
Hi, I’m Dave American, and I’m running for President.
That would be enough for some voters
I'd at least want to hear his policies regarding cheeseburgers first.
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you have my vote, and I am Jason Australian
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Like British comedienne Dawn French. The name doesn't necessarily mandate where they live.
Exactly. I'm Australian, even though my name is Billy Congo Free State.
The most famous porn star in the Netherlands is called Kim Holland. Might not be her real name, but her fame shows a name can really help you get people to like you.
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Been thinking a lot about the, "you can't vote your way out if this," doomer leftists today.
another far right candidate won… coming from the same party originally
Hungary went from lime to lemon… don't get me wrong, this is a tiny hint forward but by no means is Hungary "out"
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Wow, JD Vance did something good!
/s While I am in the US, I recognize he was not the reason of Orbán's loss. Not that US-centered. Just making a dumb joke.
I hope this is a true turning point, but Magyar is still fairly conservative himself, so I won't be too optimistic.
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Great, now put Orban in prison for his crimes against democracy so he can't come back.
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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.”
—https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world/europe/hungary-election-orban-magyar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aVA.Kuhl.h2lgWO2W5PiU
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Now do Putin
JD Vance is useful. Please let him run against AOC. Now we have a woman president!
There's a risk that Vance would be more persuasive for conservatists and centrists if he didn't have to obey Boss Trump. Then again, it'll be pretty hard for him to distance himself from that shit so quickly.
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Thank. Fuck.
Ah, what's that? The taste of authoritanism tumbling down? Can you hear the pitchforks yet?
a good day indeed.
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.
I know its owned by the right wing. I'm pointing out that they tried to talk out of both sides of their mouth on this and give him cover, but largely couldnt because Orban's corruption is so blatent.