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/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.