Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat(www.nytimes.com)
59 pointsby doener2 hours ago10 comments
  • comrade12342 hours ago
    Again!? The Hungarians just can't stop winning!

    (An article with this topic was flagged like 15 minutes ago)

  • comrade1234an hour ago
    Looking forward to Hungary winning Eurovision this year. :) (not joking - it's completely political - people that don't vote in their national elections vote in Eurovision)
  • andsoitis2 hours ago
    This is fantastic news!
    • tgv2 hours ago
      It is. This is fairly significant. Congratulations to the Hungarian people.
  • ggm2 hours ago
    It should be noted the victorious party with a super majority is hardly left wing. Like other non Hungarians I'm glad, but the substantial questions around Hungarian postures to the EU, towards migrants, persisting antisemitism remain.

    How this affects geopolitics by removing a bloated Tic of pro Russian propaganda and veto voting is worth watching. I'm hopeful it has some immediate effect regarding funds and support for Ukraine, but Poland and Slovakia remain.

    It's good to be hopeful. It's good to be realistic.

    • AlexeyBrin2 hours ago
      > How this affects geopolitics by removing a bloated Tic of pro Russian propaganda and veto voting is worth watching. I'm hopeful it has some immediate effect regarding funds and support for Ukraine, but Poland and Slovakia remain.

      I don't follow, Poland is anti-Russian and pro-Ukraine. Where do you see the similarity between Orban regime and current Poland government ?

      • seba_dos1an hour ago
        The right-wing isn't exactly known for being internally consistent and easy to follow, but the current Polish president that has been recently elected comes from a right-wing environment that's allied with Orban. That said, the president does not have a lot of power in Poland and what he does have mostly comes from the ability to obstruct the government's work with vetoes.
      • thrancean hour ago
        Both governments are (were?) similarly right-wing. Poland's is indeed pro-Ukraine but also very pro-Trump.
        • seba_dos1an hour ago
          The pro-Trump government has lost the last parliamentary election in 2023. The new one is still rather on the right side, but it's a coalition of several parties, none of which goes as far right as the previous gov (and one even has "left" in its name, though it's centre-left at best) and it's definitely not pro-Trump.
        • benterix41 minutes ago
          Poland is very anti-Trump, just like the rest of Europe. However, the current president is from a right-wing fraction that decided to support Trump and now has a very hard time explaining to their votes his every crazy move.
    • mckirk2 hours ago
      The fact that Orban is called Viktor as his first name meant your first sentence confused me greatly for a second.
      • ggm41 minutes ago
        "The Victor" would be like "The Donald"
    • mytailorisrich37 minutes ago
      It is testament to the power of propaganda in Europe that being euroskeptic or anti-immigration is deemed a "wrong opinion" at official level troughout the continent... in French there is a famous expression for this unique "correct" opinion across the board: pensée unique (single thought).
  • burnt-resistoran hour ago
    ~78% voter turnout. Democracy won!
  • IAmGraydonan hour ago
    Truly a great day for the Hungarian people, for Europe, and for the free world. Congrats, and thank you for doing your part, Hungary!
  • cjbenedikt2 hours ago
    Just ask JD Vance to speak for any right wing party's support. That'll fix that...
    • spacedcowboy2 hours ago
      Unless you're the pope. Don't let him near you if you're the pope...
    • GeoPolAlt31 minutes ago
      The silver lining to the Trump presidency is that other countries get to see what a modern far-right government looks like before condemning their own country to the same fate.
    • burnt-resistoran hour ago
      It's kinda gross that the Nazi lite Kremlin-backed party currently has 54 seats and the Nazi equivalent party has 7 so far. And it's not like Tisza isn't neoliberal-neocon, pro-billionaire, and pro-privatization as it's nothing like a liberal democracy progressive party at all.

      Maybe Elon, JD, and Orbán should tour all together and bring some Putin portraits with them to inspire support?

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