Hungary - Orban defeated
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Not just Orban defeated. Tisza currently projected to win 137 seats out of 199 giving them the critical supermajority required to remove Orban's cronies from office and make other constitutional changes to restore the rule of law.
https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026
https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026
Hill92 said:
Not just Orban defeated. Tisza currently projected to win 137 seats out of 199 giving them the critical supermajority required to remove Orban's cronies from office and make other constitutional changes to restore the rule of law.
Let us hope that they do, rather than just changing the personnel and continuing as before.ConnectionError said:
Is this good news?
Unequivocally so, at least for EU unity, Ukraine and European security. All of which are also in UK interests.It looks like Magyar might get a supermajority which allows him to unwind the constitutional f
kery that Orban and his cronies put in place. Good news domestically too.In geopolitical terms, very good news for Europe. A much needed statement for Trump and Putin that democracy will decide who wins elections in Europe, not them.
It's also quite funny that the US Government was so desperate to help Putin that they sent the Vice President to try and influence the Hungarian election, but JD Vance is so grotesque and unlikeable that it seems to have swung voters the other way.
It's also quite funny that the US Government was so desperate to help Putin that they sent the Vice President to try and influence the Hungarian election, but JD Vance is so grotesque and unlikeable that it seems to have swung voters the other way.
Simbu said:
Unequivocally so, at least for EU unity, Ukraine and European security. All of which are also in UK interests.
It looks like Magyar might get a supermajority which allows him to unwind the constitutional fkery that Orban and his cronies put in place. Good news domestically too.
Some welcome good news.It looks like Magyar might get a supermajority which allows him to unwind the constitutional f
kery that Orban and his cronies put in place. Good news domestically too.durbster said:
In geopolitical terms, very good news for Europe. A much needed statement for Trump and Putin that democracy will decide who wins elections in Europe, not them.
It's also quite funny that the US Government was so desperate to help Putin that they sent the Vice President to try and influence the Hungarian election, but JD Vance is so grotesque and unlikeable that it seems to have swung voters the other way.
It is proper weird. Vance is fully enthusiastic about Europe standing on our own two feet, then he supports Orban who was a an ongoing impediment to that.It's also quite funny that the US Government was so desperate to help Putin that they sent the Vice President to try and influence the Hungarian election, but JD Vance is so grotesque and unlikeable that it seems to have swung voters the other way.
Orban going is great. His replacement would seem to be a bit of a mixed bag. A populist, one with a platform of destroying corruption. We've heard similar before, and the norm is 'the more it changes . . . ' Still, there seems to be a good chance it will be better for Hungarians.
He's sort of pro-European and slightly less pro-EU. Positives there, but Russia has a significant fanbase in Hungary, going back to Iron Curtain days. There is, I'm told, a fair bit of anti-EU, pro-Russia graffiti around the country, particularly the east, and that's likely to be a problem for him. Is the war in Ukraine a factor in the vote? Many supporters of Russia turning?
Orban conceding before the final bit of counting. Didn't see that coming. Will he go without some attempt at holding onto power?
Best of luck to Magyar if he is who he purports to be. He'll need it.
He's sort of pro-European and slightly less pro-EU. Positives there, but Russia has a significant fanbase in Hungary, going back to Iron Curtain days. There is, I'm told, a fair bit of anti-EU, pro-Russia graffiti around the country, particularly the east, and that's likely to be a problem for him. Is the war in Ukraine a factor in the vote? Many supporters of Russia turning?
Orban conceding before the final bit of counting. Didn't see that coming. Will he go without some attempt at holding onto power?
Best of luck to Magyar if he is who he purports to be. He'll need it.
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