The Hungarian prime minister concedes to Péter Magyar, who is set to win a supermajority in the 199-seat parliament.
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.
How did Hungarians get there first place? (to elect Orban)
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.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 hope that Magyar follows post-far right Poland on dismantling the far right loyalist media and judges.
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.
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.
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.
Anything is better then having that russian puppet being able to veto in the EU. Apparently Magyar is more EU aligned, but we will see how much of that is true.
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.
Most important: it’s even a 2/3 majority. Without that, Orban could have still blocked most of the changes. Now, he cannot.
I’m glad we can now poor money into the black hole of corruption that is ukraine unhindered.
Not that it already caused an awful crisis here in the EU.
Glad they’re working on stealing my pension now.I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll. I won’t interact with the troll.
yawn
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
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.
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.I bet they were rigged, just not enough.
He sent meat and wine packages to people to buy their votes, control the media and more. Sure is a big relief 😮💨
Yes I saw the unpacking of such a box. Looked pretty nice actually. But you’d have to be pretty stupid to fall for it. So IDK if it had any effect.
If you’re a poor farmer not caring for politics… Maybe it’d swing a couple of them from one side to another. Or its like the pizza party at work 😅
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.
Thank. Fuck.
After Trumps election it is good to see, that democracy still can do good for the people
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.
This does give me a small sliver of hope.
Lovely work! So much appeal!
Oh and the lady character and the goose are cute too! :p
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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.
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.
Channel your inner pissed off hungarian and swarm that ballot box
I will be voting, I want decent hospice care for my country.
as a Hungarian I’m over the moon 🎆🎆🎆
as non-Hungarians we’re also over the moon 🎆 🎆 🎆
Glad to hear this good news.
But also, Politico is a shit rag. Don’t link to them.
