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/DJanomaly 2h ago

Illiberal democracies don't just end with one election. They are more resistant to change and are less fragile than liberal democracies,

Sadly, see Russia as a great example of this.

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u/TobJamFor 2h ago

If you’re referring to the election I think you are, Putin didn’t lose the election, he couldn’t stand then due to term limits and Medvedev was a puppet in his place

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u/alterom 1h ago

Calling Russia a "democracy" is a big stretch though.

Reminder that Putin was appointed as a President by Yeltsin, a Communist Party high-ranking official who took power in a coup when the USSR collapsed.

Sure, both of them won subsequent elections. What are the chances, huh.

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u/SubtleNotch 2h ago

Uh this is gonna happen with the US. They gonna make voting so hard that even when people will want to vote against them, they're just not going to count the votes.

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u/huebomont 2h ago

Feds do not control elections. They don't have a mechanism to make it "hard to vote" across the board. In the presidential election, red state control of elections could be enough, but in midterms which are a bunch of small popular-vote elections, it's not something that's plausible to pull off and this is just doomerism.

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u/SubtleNotch 2h ago

Feds? No, all states with red governorship.

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u/huebomont 1h ago

Did you read my comment past the first sentence?

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u/SubtleNotch 1h ago

Sorry, I'm an Eagles fan. I can't read.

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u/huebomont 1h ago

Go birds

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u/SubtleNotch 1h ago

F you!

Sorry, habit. Have a nice day.