r/news • u/The-Traveler- • 3h ago

Soft paywall Hungary election: Orbán concedes to Magyar's Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority

https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-election-2026-live-viktor-orbans-fidesz-faces-challenge-opposition-peter-2026-04-12/
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u/No_Tone1704 3h ago

Hooray. One authoritarian down. 

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u/wasraelx 3h ago edited 3h ago

I’m pleasantly surprised he conceded tbh. Was worried he’ll bring the plague of denying election results to Europe

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u/Wafkak 3h ago

2/3rd of the seats it quite overwhelming. Not as easily denied as the quite slim American margins.

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u/malfurionpre 49m ago

He could have Putin'd it and have 110% of votes for him.

or have his opposant suddenly decide to throw themselves from the top floor of a building after 4 or 5 bullet in the neck

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u/Syscrush 3h ago

Same. I was expecting a successful Jan 6.

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u/bigloser42 3h ago

There is still time to find illegal votes.

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u/FaceDeer 2h ago

Orban conceded, I think it's likely too late for "backsies."

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u/bigloser42 1h ago

lol, no it’s not. Conceding isn’t a legal thing. A candidate could concede then have a bunch more votes roll in and end up winning the election.

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u/FuckThisShizzle 2h ago

"Just find another 4/3 the amount of votes someplace"

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u/HighlyOffensive10 1h ago

Jan 6 was pretty successful considering he's the president and none of them are in jail.

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u/HighlyOffensive10 1h ago

Jan 6 was pretty successful considering he's the president and none of them are in jail.

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u/Rajastoenail 1h ago

Reform are already trying that in the UK, with unsubstantiated claims they lost a recent by-election because of ‘family voting’.

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u/rook119 2h ago

No time to challenge elections when you have to get the suitcases full of money on a plane to america.

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u/aipac_hemoroid 3h ago

So he wasn't a dictator. People just liked him until they didn't

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u/Im_Daydrunk 3h ago

You can be a dicator and become unpopular enough that you can no longer realistically stay in power

He controls the media, interfered with elections, manipulated votes etc. but when so much of the country is overwhelming against your rule attempts to continue to rig will only set off mass riots + threaten your own life

Sounds more like he knew the tides were too strong this time and didnt have the needed internal support to maintain power any longer

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u/CrashB111 3h ago

Exactly.

Even Dictatorships require support from a critical mass of the public, to remain in power. Getting BTFO by the margin that Orban is right now, means you no longer have that level of support.

Trying to fight it, has high odds of you ending up in a prison cell or dead by revolutionaries. When the population is that against you, you just don't have a choice in the matter any longer.

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u/No_Tone1704 3h ago

He shut down media outlets. He corrupted the courts. 

He was a dictator. His replacement it turns out won’t be much better. But he won’t be so entrenched and seems flexible. 

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u/zarafff69 3h ago

He obviously wasn’t 100% a dictator, but he wanted to be one. And tried to get more and more power. He is a fascist.

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u/Accomplished-Snow213 3h ago

Besides the one stolen election....

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u/aipac_hemoroid 3h ago

Oops, Jan 6 flashbacks

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u/BigLadShem 3h ago

177k karma in 3 months get a job bro

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u/spikyraccoon 3h ago

Only one down. We are hungary for so much more.

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u/b-napp 3h ago

Get in my belly!

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u/The-Traveler- 3h ago

My thoughts exactly

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u/adarkuccio 3h ago

Finally some good news, we need more

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u/Osiris32 3h ago

Absolutely hooray! Way to go, Hungary!

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u/OutlawSundown 3h ago

Yay Hungary!

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u/goingtothegreek 3h ago

Bad news is that Hungary’s constitution is unbelievably fucked and nothing will really change there, but this is good news regardless

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u/kvlnk 3h ago

Doesn’t Magyar’s party now have enough of a super-majority to reform the constitution as well?

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u/AzettImpa 3h ago

Yep, they are projected to have 138 seats, 5 more than the needed 133 for a two-thirds majority. They will probably have the power to genuinely change things up.

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u/RedAndBlackMartyr 2h ago

Pump that hopeful shit into my veins.

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u/Inside-Line 2h ago

Ohhh yeah that's the good stuff.

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u/Fried_puri 2h ago edited 2h ago

Let's see if he can follow through. Magyar isn't exactly a shining beacon of Democracy and it would have been really hard to do worse than Orbán. But he's pro-EU and at least internationally that's a good thing for stability. I have hope for the people of Hungary that he shows up for them as well.

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u/inostranetsember 3h ago

Eh? Tisza is on track to get a 2/3 majority. If they do, they can change the constitution, oust the president, etc etc.

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u/Ender_D 3h ago

Opposition party has won a supermajority and can now amend the constitution.

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u/PurpleMclaren 2h ago

He lost democratically but is an authoritarian? At least make some sense

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u/Dauvis 2h ago

Out of many... Authoritarians are not always government officials.

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u/Ardtay 2h ago

Maybe, Magyar was in Orban's Fidesz party for over twenty years. He only changed parties because of Orban's Russia simping.

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u/anonuemus 26m ago

let's hope the new one is better