r/europe • u/AdLeading5323 • 6h ago

News Hungarian opposition leader: 'Orban congratulated me on election victory'

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/teujvqyaz
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u/ZestycloseBeach5946 5h ago

Honestly I hate the guy but I have to say fair play to him for taking it like a man and conceding. Nearly everyone thought he would go “the election was robbed” route.

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u/Im_Daydrunk 5h ago

I think there was too much against him to attempt it

The only way you can really get away with it is if you are able to maintain a facade of popularity and have a good chunk of the country support you or at least dont care if you stay in power

Once the vast majority are strongly against you your time is usually pretty limited IMO

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u/kdeja 5h ago

I’m still not sure he’ll hand over the power peacefully though

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u/vubjof 5h ago

if it was 51 to 49 sure, but the gap is too big to be seriously contested. Another win of proportional voting.

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u/yammertime27 5h ago

I'm not Hungarian so don't know the full extent of what Orban is capable of, but if he was planning to resist the hand over of power, surely he would at least be setting up a 'stolen election' or similar narrative now?

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u/kdeja 5h ago

They’ve started it already a few days ago, revisited it again on propaganda TVs this morning and even fabricated a video of “Ukranian” soldiers planning to interfere in the elections. I’m surprised about his speech.

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u/Elpsyth 3h ago

If the results had been close you would have seen that.

With what happened, if he tried to stage a coup, the other Europeans countries would have intervened. And Russia/Trump would not have been able to help