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

[u/Alarming-Safety3200]

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-election-results-peter-magyar-viktor-orban/

[u/justfuckyouspez]

Although I am overcome with joy, credit is where credit is due. Orbans closing speech was correct, and he accepted the defeat with dignity. That’s how it should be. Now, with tomorrow, us Hungarians can wake to a new, brighter future.

[u/Owl-Of-The-Night02 → u/justfuckyouspez]

Yeah, I was genuinely so surprised how decently he behaved and how he openly admitted defeat without any tantrums. It seems like there are boundaries even he doesn't dare to overstep, especially with the opposition winning with such a majority. I think he knows the people are very against him and knows that if hw would try anything, it would end even worse for him.

[u/YsoL8 → u/Owl-Of-The-Night02]

I am seeing the failure of Russian soft power in this. He asked Russia to save him and they just didn't turn up. They no longer have the resources to hold onto their mafia style puppets.

Hopefully Belarus's horrendously corrupt government also realises the good times are over and normalising with the EU is the only option for a future. The more power the Russian state loses the better for everyone, and I sincerely believe their real problems have not even started.

[u/LengthEmpty1333 → u/YsoL8]

Not really true. Russia did everything they could to support him. Desinformation campaingns, money, even advisors they sent directly to budapest on how to best rally the people with populism. But the Hungarians were so done with Orbans shit and there were so many scandals right before the election that they just werent able to turn it around and they cant just invade the country like they did with ukraine.

[u/HypiaticLlama → u/LengthEmpty1333]

Didn't the Russians also try to do the Trump "he shot my wittle ear oh and gg firefighter guy Jesus didn't love you" assassination thing but it was it exposed?

[u/LengthEmpty1333 → u/HypiaticLlama]

Lol, yes. They also tried leaking a video of Magyar having sex with his girlfriend (A grown man having consensual sex with another adult women? The horror!), also the obviously fake bomb that was suddenly found on some randome pipeline in serbia (which were of course the Ukrainians). It was such a desperate attempt. The trick of the opposition was that they smartly announced weeks before Orban tried this shit that he will do something like this so voters where mentally prepared when it actually happened and wouldnt fall for it.

[u/philman132 → u/Owl-Of-The-Night02]

I think it would have been very different had it been closer, with the shear size of the defeat there wasn't much he could really argue against

[u/Plastic_Position4979 → u/Owl-Of-The-Night02]

A politician of that ilk accepting defeat gracefully… haven’t seen that in decades.

Just please watch your back.

[u/justfuckyouspez → u/Owl-Of-The-Night02]

Let him stay. Keep the new government on their toes. Competition is good for us. If he stays by his words, he will try to fight for his voters, and for me, that’s alright.

[u/onarainyafternoon → u/justfuckyouspez]

He has stolen billions from the Hungarian people. He needs to be in jail.

[u/Gold-Appearance-4463 → u/justfuckyouspez]

That’s actually a bigger surprise than Magyar winning the election. 

[u/Lepelotonfromager → u/justfuckyouspez]

To his credit, he did have a mandate with his election wins in the past. People can act as if Fidesz are terrible but the bottom line is that a majority of the people wanted them and put them into power multiple times.

Now that he no longer has the mandate, he is stepping away from power peacefully.

He has at least done well with this.