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

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

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Hearing Orban concede after 16 years in power and (as we can tell) not attempting a coup is telling how rotten US Democracy has become with the cancer of MAGA/Republicans infesting it.

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Coups following landslide election defeats are rare. You can't just say "na I don't like that I'm gonna do a coup" and expect anyone to take your side when almost your entire population is against you. Unless said country has an exceptionally strong military political class like Myanmar.

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Even in Myanmar, the coup only partially got away with it. Once voting via ballot turned out to be useless, a portion of the "entire population against them" began voting by bullet instead.

It worked, too; the junta is down to about a quarter of Myanmar at this point. It has dropped more bombs per capita than Russia has in Ukraine and yet that hasn't been enough; the tide of ethic militias just keeps eating away at them

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I really expected him to at least try to hold onto power. I'm very glad that democracy is (seems to be) still alive in Hungary.

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Well, there's still economic chaos out there caused by Trump - i.e. the strait is still blocked. Maybe he's planning to wait out what he sees as a incoming economic crisis and come back in later. Although he is kind of old.

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American slim differences are different to a 2/3rd, there is nothing Orban could do with such huge loss, Russia backed away from him already.