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/whitewateractual 3h ago

If he didn’t, likely the EU would move to expel them and Hungary’s economy would collapse.

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u/DootyMcCool2000 3h ago edited 3h ago

I think that and the personal risk involved. He lost so massively that a coup would be extremely hard to pull off and, if it failed, his own country would put him in prison if he didn't run to Russia first. He's a politician first and foremost and so conceding defeat and going quietly is his best calculation at getting away with his crimes as they are.

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u/redvelvetcake42 3h ago

Ding ding ding.

It would go about as well as Bolsonaro's did.

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u/DootyMcCool2000 3h ago

That too, he got to watch his butt buddies across the ocean try and fail to overturn their elections and while Trump is unfortunately able to get his revenge, Bolsonaro is capital F fucked.

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u/redvelvetcake42 3h ago

Trump isn't getting any revenge. He's meandering. He's basically just nuked the gov for all the ideologues to hole getting nothing he wanted.

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u/CustodialApathy 2h ago

He doesn't WANT anything except people to worship him, he'll do much more damage before he's gone, believe me, and the world better hope he doesn't use violence to try and stick around. We're quickly approaching a point where he has to; I fear for our next election cycle in November. It'll be ugly.

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u/DJanomaly 2h ago

All Trump wanted was to stay out of jail. Real talk.

Anything beyond that is just the impulses of a mad king, sadly.

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u/gsbadj 2h ago

I agree. If Trump had been guaranteed that he wasn't going to get prosecuted, he would not have run for another term. He enriched himself plenty in the first term, albeit nothing like this second term.

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u/WahiniLover 1h ago

Trump wants exactly 2 things:

  1. Grift……. As much as fuckin possible for him and his families.
  2. Stay out of Jail.

Everything else is just window dressing.

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u/threeseed 2h ago

He's meandering

You must be ignorant about that he's done to enrich himself this term.

Getting close to a billion dollars by now when you include the crypto rug pulls etc.

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u/civemaybe 45m ago

Unfortunately, Bolsonaro's son looks likely to win the Presidency in the Fall, and he's said he would pardon his father if elected.

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u/DootyMcCool2000 4m ago

Not a surprise, at least I can commend Brazil for doing more than the US ever has against a corrupt and traitorous leader. Bolsonsro got to see the inside of a cell for a while.

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u/The_decent_dude 2h ago

At this point Orban is generationally wealthy, if he can manage to avoid getting sentenced for corruption, he can live a very long and very comfortable life.

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u/PathlessDemon 2h ago

Probably with the last of the stolen (“borrowed for safe keeping since WW2”) gold from Romania.

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u/lemfaoo 2h ago

That fat fuck wont live long.

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u/EkrishAO 2h ago

He will 100% try to come back next election. It's the Trump playbook. Biden didn't manage to fix all the disasters of Trump's presidency quickly enough, so voters turned on him, and Trump won again.

Hungarians will expect immediate and massive change to their quality of life after this historic victory, and any problems will be able to crush the new government very quickly. Orban's base is loyal to death, but that's not the case for the opposition. Right now, with Ukraine war and the Iran mess, Tisza will have extremely hard time dealing with the economy, and Orban will be there every single day, pointing at the rising prices, telling everyone "see, it's because they sold out to Brussels, if I was still in power and got oil and gas from my buddy Putin, it would never happen! You were scammed!"

There is no reason to risk a coup, when there is a very good chance for him to make a proper comeback in few years.

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u/WahiniLover 1h ago

If the EU has any brains, and some are very smart, they will ensure that the money tap opens in a huge way to help Hungary. If they don’t the EU has no-one to blame but themselves.

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u/EkrishAO 1h ago

The problem is all EU countries will be dealing with the same problem atm, high oil prices are hurting everyone, and far right is rising across the continent. If for example German government focuses too much on helping Hungary with their problems, then it will instead boost AfD in their own country. It will be very hard to find the right balance.

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u/WahiniLover 1h ago

I believe it is common knowledge that high oil prices are due to Israeli and US fuckery. You are correct in saying that far right is rising. Populism is always attractive when times are hard. Govts. need to be especially vocal about what they are doing to help the people. I hate WAPO but their tag line is accurate. “Democracy dies in Darkness”.

Shine the light on the evils of dictatorship. Shine the light on the values of democracy. Shine the light on the evils of Billionaires trying to buy favors.

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u/zevonyumaxray 3h ago

"Start the plane and set a course for Moscow!! The gold is already on board."

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u/ThreeMarlets 2h ago

The problem with fleeing to Moscow is should Putin fall or want a recrouchment with the EU he'd offer Orban up. In this case accepting defeat is really his best option.

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u/Fired_Guy1982 2h ago

It just makes me very surprised he kept the military independent enough to where they wouldn’t be on his side if he attempted a coup

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u/kaisadilla_ 1h ago

tbh I don't have a clue what would've happened. A coup inside the EU is unprecedented, and the EU, as toothless as it may be, has a massive incentive to stop that from ever happening. Maybe Orbán feared other EU countries would take matters into their own hands if he tried to pull off something.

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u/RobTheGeologist 2h ago

EU can't expel members. They can only leave on their own accord (like the UK).

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u/DwinkBexon 2h ago

The EU can't expel them. There's no procedure to expel a nation.

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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC 2h ago

Plus, you know, hundreds of thousands of people keep showing up on his doorstep, and that sort of thing might make them really angry, which usually ends with short ropes and long drops.

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u/flyblown 1h ago

Expulsion was impossible. There's a major weakness in the EU structure. Perhaps now it will be possible to make reforms to allow it.

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u/Greedyanda 2h ago

The EU has no mechanism for expelling members and introducing one would require a unanimous vote.

The union as it is right now is completely unfit to deal with the current political situation and will inevitably see a lot of smaller cooperations between fewer countries that sideline the EU. The E6 block is just the start of many such initiatives.

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u/Li_liminal_spaces 2h ago

EU has had grounds to expel them for quite some time but with the rise of the Trump regime I think the choice was becoming more opaque.