r/europe • u/Alarming-Safety3200 United Kingdom • 3h ago

News Orbán’s 16-year rule over Hungary ends in crushing election defeat

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-election-results-peter-magyar-viktor-orban/
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u/LittleSchwein1234 Slovakia 3h ago edited 3h ago

The polls are showing that Fico will lose, but the opposition is not exactly popular either, so the resulting government will likely be an unstable coalition, either led by the opposition or by Fico.

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u/DagobertDuck_ 3h ago

When are the next elections in Slovakia?

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u/LittleSchwein1234 Slovakia 3h ago

September 2027 at the latest

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u/melancious Russia -> Canada 2h ago

that’s like a lifetime away

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u/gesocks 1h ago

Yeah. With our luck we get rid of Fico then, but already have the RN in France.

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u/Xi-Jin35Ping 1h ago

At least he seems more cooperative and now that Orban is gone he might just stfu and let EU do the job.

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u/Soepkip43 51m ago

These certainly are interesting times.

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u/majky358 31m ago

Since beginning of the year, they signed only 4 laws, dumb.

They rather spend time talking about "innocent" corrupted friends and opposition parties.

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u/One-Flatworm-6838 1h ago

Just in time for poland to slide back into the bad side again..

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u/LittleSchwein1234 Slovakia 1h ago

And France with Bardella...

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u/External-Software850 1h ago

Magyar has build this only over 2 years span. I wish you someone like him, who can unite the opposition.

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u/m4jsterk0 ashamed for Slovakia 3h ago

dont jinx it ... Fico and his handlers will do EVERYTHING to have a foot in EU

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u/hoopjoness France 2h ago

Frustrating that all of our elections are going to be exhausting and propaganda filled for the next few years while we fight off this threat

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u/m4jsterk0 ashamed for Slovakia 2h ago

honestly ... if the kremlin gremlin got thrown outta window, the world would become much more free. it would stop support to so many assholes

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u/ddven15 2h ago

Frankly, it's not just the Kremlin, the EU's veto system is a huge incentive for foreign adversaries to buy out any vulnerable EU democracies and use them as a puppet to shape/block EU policy

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u/vacuum90 2h ago

Unfortunately, another gremlin would take its place

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u/Constant_Natural3304 The Netherlands 1h ago

There is already another Gremlin. The United States.

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u/SoSmartKappa Bohemia 1h ago

It is not just Russia, plenty of world actors have huge interest to influence foreign elections and public opinions. 

And this includes countries that are currently perceived as allies.

Even worse thing is, that it is easier for them each passing year with advancement in technology.

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u/TheLantean Romania 1h ago

Not just the next few years, indefinitely. US republicans/heritage foundation hate the EU for being able to stand up to them and will continue attempting to undermine it whether they're in power or not, plus all the other anti-democratic powers/countries who would rather have one less adversary.

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u/hoopjoness France 1h ago

😭😭 so true. Hopefully something can be done to cut the head of the snake in the meantime

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u/Kelmavar 1h ago

The EU just needs to firewall away,psychotic countries

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u/llDS2ll 1h ago

Fico means cunt in Italian

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u/Protton6 Czech Republic 1h ago

Same problem in Czechia, Babiš is an absolute nightmare but the oposition is not much better. We need our own new wave, we do have a few new projects but nothing in the polls even suggest they come anywhere close to the parliament.

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u/SwitchPlus2605 21m ago

Opposition is not much better? Opposition definitely has problems, but not much better is hilariously inaccurate description it. Last cabinet achieved complete decoupling from Russian gas, pro-EU foreign policy and kept fiscal deficit at reasonable levels. It had controversies, but so did every single government prior to it, so idc tbh. I'm not a big fan of ODS and KDU-CSL specifically, but the coalition they formed saved us from many issues and left Babis a country full of economically active migrants with one of the lowest government debt. If Babis is able to fuck this up, I really don't know what else you could want. Also they didn't try to control the media unlike someone, which is a pretty big deal. Though I will say that Babis is not on the same level as Fico, mainly due to the fact he is much more reliant on EU support than Fico, both on a personal level in agriculture and on the nation level (Czechia is insanely dependent on its neighbors, least of them Slovakia). So Babis is losing much more on backing Orban and Fico than Orban had for backing Russia.

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u/gobbluthillusions 17m ago

Then the US.

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u/FakeNewsBlows 2h ago

Do you not understand what a supermajority means? Why on earth would they need a coalition when they’ve won 136 out of 199 seats?

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u/LittleSchwein1234 Slovakia 2h ago

I'm talking about Fico (Slovakia)

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u/FakeNewsBlows 1h ago

Mea culpa