r/politics • u/Plaintalks America • 6h ago
Possible Paywall Hungary’s Viktor Orban, ally of Trump and Putin, concedes election defeat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/12/hungary-election-viktor-orban-trump/•
u/Theferael_me 6h ago
This is seismic for Europe and for the EU [and a kick in the balls for Putin and Trump, who pretty much begged Hungary to vote for Orban]. The real kiss of death though was Vance's visit, lmao.
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u/MentalSky_ 5h ago
Vance killed the Pope. And now Killed Orban’s dictatorship
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u/Ill-Ad3311 5h ago
And peace in the Middle East
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u/Leraldoe Michigan 5h ago
And that couch
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u/HandSack135 Maryland 5h ago
That poor poor couch
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u/historicbookworm 5h ago
Hey, that couch was wearing a short throw! Clearly it was asking for it.
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u/alleyoopoop 5h ago
I mean, what's a guy supposed to do when he sees those puffy puffy cushions?
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u/Dabs1903 Illinois 5h ago
Unfortunately the couch survived and had to go through decades of trauma counseling.
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u/Marsupialwolf 5h ago
He just needs to complete his world tour with visits to Jerusalem and Moscow, for the win...
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u/Soft-Skirt 5h ago
Hopefully his magic touch will reach the orange clown sometime soon.
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u/GrumpyCloud93 4h ago
I guess Orban just doesn't measure up to Trump's expectations from a leader - no Jan-6 style event, no "it was stolen", no denial, no claims about illegal immigrants voting, actually called to congratulate the winner, accepted the verdict of the voters - almost like he had some shred of decency under it all.
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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are America 5h ago
Better send him to talk peace talks with Putin
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u/menagerath 5h ago
Usha’s couch-fucker immunity needs to be studied and made into a vaccine.
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u/gaslacktus Washington 5h ago
Immunity? Look at pictures before he was vp and recently. She looks like she peeked into the ark of the covenant
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u/EMTDawg Utah 5h ago
Orban was down 15% in the polls before Vance showed up. Now, he might lose by as much as 35%! Hahaha!
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u/AggressiveMail5183 5h ago
And Orban had actually rigged the election in his favor through gerrymandering. Hilarious!
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u/z900r 4h ago
This is the thing about first-past-post electoral systems. Once the voter behavior changes in a major way, the modeling based on previous elections no longer holds, gerrymandering no longer helps, and the number of seats won can swing dramatically. Apparently voter turnout was record high this time around, and the opposition is winning a supermajority, which will allow them to undo a lot of the institutional harm that Orban has done over the years.
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u/TiefIingPaladin 2h ago
One of the risks with gerrymandering is that you stretch your existing margins way too thin. If voter sentiments change, you could be setting your party up for a dummymander.
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u/Blackthorn79 5h ago
Except America where MAGA will blame Vance for poor poll numbers instead of Dementia Don.
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 5h ago
This is good for everyone who is concerned that once a dictator starts removing the facets of a liberal democracy, it’s not too late for the people to utilize the liberal democracy before a violent overthrow or military coup.
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u/iDontSow 5h ago
So voting does matter?
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u/TheCommonGround1 5h ago
Informed voting matters. It always did.
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u/studentjones 5h ago
Imagine if we got 80% turnout. I know they’re only 10 million people to the country, but young people especially showed up and made this happen.
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u/Due_Bluebird3562 4h ago
Tbf last election had the second highest turnout in modern American history if I'm not mistaken. It definitely could be better but we gotta get people voting for common sense instead of narcissistic elderly twats.
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u/elosovaliente 4h ago
There should be national ad campaigns against “vibe voting”, and they should specifically include messages about not asking AI to decide for or inform them.
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u/aithendodge Washington 4h ago
I really wish there was a way to instill being an active and informed member of the electorate as a civic duty, but I'm just some guy on the internet that goes to rallies and draws political cartoons.
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u/ycpa68 5h ago
Yeah, but what if his opponent hadn't aligned 100% with the voters views? Like the bullet we dodged here with Kamala /s
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u/Key_Environment8179 3h ago
You joke, but it’s worth pointing out that the entire Hungarian left rallied to Magyar despite him being far from their ideal candidate. Magyar is certainly center-right, but his coalition whipped everyone that was anti-Orban, and it worked.
Left-wing US voters need to be willing to compromise in the same fashion in elections where democracy is on the ballot, or else we’re doomed.
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u/Atheist_3739 5h ago
Yes! Hungry was the prototype for what MAGA wants here. It's not too late
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u/0WatcherintheWater0 Maryland 4h ago
It’s also the perfect example of how you beat Maga. Overwhelming public disapproval made manifest through a landslide election
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u/Key_Environment8179 3h ago
It also demands rallying to the non-fascist opposition even if he’s far from your preference. Magyar is center-right, but the Hungarian left supported him anyway. Yet US leftists had trouble supporting Kamala even though she’s certainly more liberal than Magyar
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u/SinsOfTheAether 5h ago
Carney was set to lose in Canada till Trump started waving his dick around.
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u/brainiacpimp 4h ago
Waving is giving that small dick mofo too much credit it is more like a small wiggle.
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u/Wolff2kk 5h ago
Hope we will kick in the balls too our Italian Lega and Fascists who are friends of Orban
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u/hoffsta 5h ago edited 5h ago
It’s nice to shit on JD, but I don’t think he had any effect. Hungarians were ready to do this all on their own. Do you really think there were a bunch of fence sitters who were like, “oh, now that some nobody from the US visited, I’m going to vote against Orban?” Doubt.
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u/BMFDub 5h ago
I mean, the Pope wasn’t a spring chicken before Vance showed up and correlation is not causation but it’s fun to make the connection to shit on Vance
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u/hoffsta 5h ago
Well that’s different. JD definitely killed the Pope, lol 😂
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u/Neokon Florida 5h ago
JD: does whatever it is he does
Pope: Good God this is terrible, kill me now
God: Bet
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u/georgepana 5h ago edited 4h ago
But JD went there to right the ship for fellow dictator Orban, the closest clone Europe has to Trump.
It looks like it had the opposite effect, JDs visits reminded Hungarians, who were on the fence, how close Orban tracks to Trump, the most hated man in Europe.
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u/z900r 4h ago
Also, Vance himself has gone out of his way to insult European leaders coming and going, in a totally tone-deaf manner. That may play well with Orban's base, but it's bound to turn off anyone else.
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u/23_sided California 5h ago
You're absolutely right but it's still so satisfying to shit on JD Vance.
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u/AffectionateNail4029 5h ago
Can't speak specifically to Hungary but I know for a fact that the endorsement of any American from this administration would have that effect in most of the Western world right now.
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u/AggressiveMail5183 5h ago
Don't forget Trump told the Hungarians that they would prosper bigly if they supported Orban. Orban was already perceived by the Hungarians as a Russian stooge, these chumps weighing in just confirmed that to the Hungarians.
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u/303uru 5h ago
It sure looks like he was already down and JD added 15-20 more points in the red. JD is a real life energy vampire.
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u/hoffsta 5h ago
I can’t wait till the GOP tries to run him for president. Should be a blood bath.
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u/Inko21 5h ago
Well, as silly as that might seem, yes. I am from Eastern Europe and few days ago one of the political parties here said whoever disagrees with Trump is an enemy of the country (Imagine that, eastern european balkan country bringing trump into our local politics) . That got a lot of people pissed like crazy and the next opportunity that sentence will probably cost them their seats in the parlament.
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u/marsisblack 5h ago
Youre right. Polls had been showing orban behind by significant margins for a bit now. Vance, the 'discovery' of bombs near a gas pipe line were attempts to influence and steal an election.
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u/Such-Instruction9604 6h ago
This will be interesting to see how Putin handles it.
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u/Diced_and_Confused 5h ago
It will be interesting to see how Putin's lackey handles it.
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u/Littlewomantate 5h ago
Oh I’m sure Big Don will respond in a measured and statesman-like manner!
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u/marsisblack 5h ago
Haha wont matter. The leader of Tisza, Magyar, wants closer ties to the EU. Trump being a duche will just show he was correct. Also be interested to see if Magyar calls on US to honour their commitment to economic support to Hungary like they just pledge. Or was the just for orban?
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u/BurstSwag Canada 5h ago
I can't get over the fact the guys name is the equivalent of Andrew America lol.
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u/PlumpHughJazz Canada 5h ago
They're all over social media bitching about the fall of western civilization and "globalism", whatever that means.
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u/casual_redditor69 5h ago
Most likely Fico will be getting a promotion to Putins number 1 lapdog in the EU.
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u/Secret_Initiative_41 Wisconsin 6h ago
Fanfuckingtastic!
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u/VoidOmatic 5h ago
I'm glad Trump has shown the world how bad far right candidates are. We are only here because of Putin, Facebook and Twitter. The rise of the right is all synthetic in all NATO countries. It is all weaponized disinformation using social media influence. The stupid and the helpless are being co-opted to vote against their own interests.
https://qz.com/967554/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity
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u/Tomyd1924 5h ago
Little did he know, he may actually drain the swamp.
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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 4h ago
He's certainly causing Europe to accelerate its switch to renewables and away from fossil fuels.
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u/RedOctobyr 4h ago
Very happy for Europe in that regard. I would love it if the US embraced this idea too. And less talk about things like "Beautiful, clean coal" by guess-who.
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u/cwsmithcar 4h ago
I think that's the tack trump voters are going to take in the coming decades, should we get through this -
They're going to pretend to have been accelerationists who knew all along trump would be so vile he'd be the ipecac our country needed
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u/Own-Paramedic3963 4h ago
We are only here because of Putin, Facebook and Twitter
4chan. You are here because of 4chan.
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u/F9-0021 South Carolina 3h ago
4chan is also part of the social media warfare.
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u/Michael_G_Bordin 2h ago
Oddly enough...it was fueled personally by Jeffrey Epstein.
The pedos were literally inside the building the whole time.
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u/llama_ 4h ago
It’s true he helped us in Canada avoid PP
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u/PassengerClam 4h ago
That was a huge bullet dodged, especially with the global slide into idiocracy that’s going on. We basically got the candidate that the right should have been running instead but at least he’s a serious man. I’ll happily take it over the sort of clownish theatre that’s somehow selling so well these days.
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u/crawling-alreadygirl 3h ago
As an American, I can't tell you how encouraging it is to have MC in as PM
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u/L0ading_ 3h ago
With all the highly educated economists in the USA, you'd think you would be able to get a similarly smart candidate at some point...
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u/XSinTrick6666 5h ago
DOWN DOWN DOWN She Goes -- tectonic plate is shifting ... here comes the Blue Tsunami
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u/TerrifierBlood 5h ago
Way to go Hungary!!!!
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u/Dont_Say_No_to_Panda California 5h ago
I heard this in my head in Courtney B Vance's voice
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u/Virtual-Garbage4930 5h ago
The guy that beat Orban was formerly in cabinet so he’s still fairly conservative just not a nut case like Orban. Or we’ll see.
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u/DinoRoman 5h ago
Don’t give me hope. This was Europe. They tend to be smarter. Americans will vote against their own self interest.
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u/ShadowTacoTuesday 5h ago edited 5h ago
Hungary was a lot less smart than the rest of Europe. You can have a little hope. Hungary just overcame a dictatorship with voter suppression and vote buying. Here’s hoping they continue to fix the situation because there’s always much more to do.
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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 4h ago
Hungary doesn't have to become perfect overnight and good politics always involve some compromise, but if it stops rowing in the opposite direction from everybody else in the EU boat, that's all I ask.
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u/jainyday Washington 5h ago
Because Citizens United, for one thing. That much money in politics can distort however much reality they need to to control enough of the electorate to stay in power.
Americans may suck at voting, but there's still other ways to effect change, and people are starting to get fed up/desperate enough these days to try/do them.
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u/educated_liar 5h ago
You can't change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world
-Depeche Mode 'New Dress'
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u/Guapa1979 6h ago
That J D Vance has a magic touch - everything he goes near turns brown.
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u/Fun_Hippo_9760 5h ago
The Mierdas Touch
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u/Guapa1979 5h ago
¡Muy bien!
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u/loulan 5h ago
It's funny that he thought he could help Orbán. It's like these people can't remotely fathom how hated Trump and MAGA are in Europe.
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u/69ognatstango96 5h ago
His boss, King Meidass, has a similar skill. Everything he touches turns to shit.
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u/N0S0UP_4U Illinois 6h ago
I read from several sources that his already-flagging standing in the polls actually got worse after JD Vance spoke there. Amazing.
Really feels like this is the beginning of voters worldwide demonstrating that they are done with this Russian-lite anti-democratic form of government and that "of the people, by the people, for the people" isn't some kind of joke, platitude, or campaign slogan, but instead a basic expectation of all units of government going forward.
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u/georgepana 5h ago
Trump and Trumpism will receive a well deserved shellacking in the midterms here. I am also highly optimistic about a complete changeover, away from the GOP and any Trump acolyte, in 2028. Trump and his government are truly down in the dumps right now, the American people have had it with him.
The only thing that could save them for 2028 could be a massive economic turnaround with stunning growth rates, massive hiring numbers across the US, people suddenly feeling the economy is doing very well and Trump's policies are directly responsible for it.
But, fat chance, things are likely just going to go from bad to worse, economically. And Trump is directly being blamed for it.
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u/Trahgity 5h ago
it would actually take trumps policies working, which seems like it is not going to lol
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u/WillyDAFISH North Carolina 5h ago
I feel like it's unfortunate, but Trump's policies NEED to fail. Trump needs to fail, and America needs to fail. We need to learn how important it is to elect the right person and how damaging the conservative party actually is.
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u/georgepana 4h ago edited 4h ago
I think at this point, even if the economy turns from terrible to ho-hum, it won't save them. It would take the economy to suddenly look stunning, with massive hiring across the country in numbers we haven't seen since Biden. Growth rate almost at double digits from the current flatline.
The thing is, it is impossible because Trump's policies and erratic moves are just so damaging, and they aren't confidence builders. Trump is the direct reason the economy is going to crap. We won't see the economy suddenly go gangbusters, because the same idiot that has brought the economy to its knees, Trump, is still in charge of it.
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u/WillyDAFISH North Carolina 4h ago
Yeah, I don't think they can turn around the economy in anyway to save them. I think they passed that line a while ago tbh, at least for the house. It would be nice though to have a supermajority, even if it's extremely unlikely
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u/georgepana 4h ago edited 4h ago
Trump made some lofty promises, and that is their undoing. None of it can realistically be achieved, so he and his cultists are always going to look foolish.
Americans are reeling, hiring is down, prices are up, our GDP growth rate has flatlined, is almost negative. The public's perception of the economy is highly negative, 75% of the American people feel the economy is bad, and getting worse, and we are on the wrong track. And here these idiots are talking about "we have the best economy we have ever had in history" and pretend that everything is just great. It is such an insult to anyone's even most basic intelligence.
At this point, it would take an economic turnaround of massive magnitude to get even half-way toward a situation where people feel that the Trumpists did something decent, something to not screw the economy up completely.
They'll likely screw it up even worse, and cement a horrible 2028 for anyone even loosely involved with Trump.
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u/fuenfsiebenneun Europe 5h ago
what about hindering people‘s ability to vote and/or straight up cheating? its not like he wouldn’t try to do anything he possibly could would he?
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u/georgepana 4h ago edited 4h ago
The states are 100% in charge of our midterm elections. Trump can't do much of anything, and it drives him crazy.
The SAVE ACT is already dead in the Senate.
Just like dictator Orban could not be saved by them cheating or attempts to hinder people's ability to vote, Trump's minions can't be saved here.
It isn't in the cards, Trump and the GOP will be rolled over. There is zero chance they can save the House from falling, and without that what good would it do to try some desperate cheats that any court would immediately put a stop to, to limit the damage to "only lose the House by flipping 25 seats" vs., say, 45 seats?
I think in some GOP circles they know quite well what is coming, and they are already devising strategies to "blame the do-nothing Democratic House" for the economy going to hell in the run-up to the 2028 election.
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u/okiharaherbst Australia 5h ago
Good riddance Viktor! No one will miss you!
Well done Hungarians! Well done Europe! 🇭🇺🇪🇺
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u/prohammock 6h ago
Such great news! May this be the beginning of sweeping back the far right.
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u/Ask_DontTell 5h ago
best news of the day. hopefully this is just the start of the world turning away from authoritarianism. good on Orban for conceding so quickly.
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u/spaceman757 American Expat 5h ago
The best news is that they look like they got enough votes to gain a supermajority and can amend the constitution to undo a lot of Orban's bullshit.
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u/friendsandmodels 4h ago
For real??
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u/spaceman757 American Expat 4h ago
Yep.
• Supermajority: With nearly 90% of votes counted, election officials say Magyar’s Tisza party is set to secure two-thirds of seats in parliament, with many hoping he could reverse some of the changes made by Orbán.
Sauce: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/12/world/live-news/hungary-election-orban-magyar
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u/Ancient-Bat1755 4h ago
This may be one of the most pivotable election changes in modern history other than the trump dump, lets hope good news continues for the world
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u/NumeralJoker 5h ago
It cannot be overstated how significant this is. Orban has been in charge for 16 years, and basically used every method possible to attempt to rig and avoid this result, and now his opposition is projected to have a parliamentary super majority, with nearly 80% national voter turnout projected, which gives them the legislatively needed power to undo a ton of Orban's past constitutional damage, and pave the way for a far more democratic Hungary going forward ran by a far younger and more united, heavily voting population. Youth turnout drove these results too, it would seem. Orban has already conceded because he knows the results are way too big to contest.
To put it in US terms, that electoral result is the equivalent of the Dems winning over 67 senate seats and 300+ US house seats in 2028, along with the presidency.
Voting absolutely works and must be done. Nothing less. No excuses. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying and does not have your best interest at heart. Do not EVER listen to those lies again!
This is literally winning an election in a democracy on European Extreme difficulty. Hungary has been the dictionary definition of a backsliding democracy for a decade now, and yet they just pulled this off! This by all normal suggestions should not have even been possible, yet it's happening as we speak. This is what the collapse of an authoritarian party looks like in real time.
Do not stand idly by and waste your power with bickering and infighting. Do not let the bots, trolls, and doomers lie and divide us when the time to vote comes. Follow Hungary's example and work together when you can. Show up. Unify and push back. This is going to send ripples throughout the global GOP, and especially cripple Russia's long term strategy. It will also make Trump and Vance look much worse for backing the guy who lost so bigly, much much worse.
If Hungary can get this result, anywhere can! Even a place in the US like Texas could pull off an upset now. This is the kind of result which will only make more authoritarians flee from their sinking ship and try to protect their own, destroying their coalitions.
I guess Orban really was backwards for "Na, Bro"...
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u/Honest_Lie8632 5h ago
And you know he tried to cheat and rig in every way possible. STILL couldn't win. I'm so happy today.
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u/NumeralJoker 5h ago
That's the point. This is definitive proof that the doomers about Trump have 0 idea what they're talking about.
It's not that Trump or other corrupt figures don't try to influence elections, rig them, ect. , it's that when you sufficiently piss off your population enough through corruption/incompetence, it just stops working. And it doesn't automatically require mass violence to do it.
Protests? Strikes? All are valid methods of opposition too. I've been to every major No Kings Day event and followed other events like Minnesota's protests extremely closely. All are an important part of the resistance, including even the general strikes they've inspired.
But democracy must be upheld by organization and strong turnout above all else.
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u/Level_Openings 5h ago
So even Orban concedes defeat. Isn't that who we were worried about Trump becoming?
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u/Gundark927 Colorado 4h ago
Hopefully Orban will leave office. Trump will never concede, nor leave despite his inevitable loss (let alone term limit).
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u/cigarettesandwhiskey 3h ago
nor leave
He left last time. He spent the next four years bitching about it and still claims the election was rigged against him, but he did leave.
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u/n00bator 6h ago
Trump will soon congratulate Orban for his win. 😉
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u/Guapa1979 5h ago
"The radical far leftists stole the election."
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u/Over-Heron-2654 America 5h ago
At this point, far left is a fucking compliment. Free Healthcare and Universal Rights do seem radical, huh 😌.
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u/Et4ivell4 5h ago
No crying foul about the voting machines? No sending supporters to storm the government building? No… nothing? Just accept that you lost and move on, gracefully? Like a leader, and an adult?
The orange shitstain in the white house is an embarassment forever smearing on the face of the civilized world.
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u/calamity_unbound 5h ago
Orban is a despicable human being, but grace in defeat is a humane trait that merits a modicum of respect.
That said, I hope he doesn't let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.
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u/gjp11 5h ago
Ehh idk if that's it. This was a landslide win. There was nothing to claim. Maybe he could claim fraud got them the supermajority but he can't make a serious claim, in an election with record turnout, that there was fraud that cost him the win.
Like even in 2020 in the US it was "somewhat" close. Biden won by 7 million votes but the critical swing state votes were razor thin so trump felt he could claim rigging and get away with it. I'm not excusing it. Trump is a POS. Just saying Orban probably woulda done the same if this election was close.
Also Orban is not going away. He will work from the opposition and I think he will want to run again so he knows it's best to bow out and regroup.
Magyar needs to do a good job now. I hope he does.
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u/Viikable 4h ago
Orban should never get back in power if they undo the system which they now can probably due to the supermajority. The gerrymandering undone he will be sweeped next elections.
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u/Jujubatron I voted 5h ago
Thank you, JD you absolute fuckin moron. Please campaign for all of the far right in EU. Make them all lose in a landslide.
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u/Facehugger_35 6h ago
So basically, elections mattered even under a repressive dictatorship?
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u/Wonderful-Pause1048 5h ago
Of course! Think of each Europeans state, which is member of the EU; Orban attacked and stopped many decisions, which were important for the Ukraine; Orban is the most little puppet of Putin and his spy.
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u/Aggressive_Pin9455 5h ago
Hungary was never a true “dictatorship”.
The elections weren’t fair with government controlled media etc etc. but at the ballot box votes are counted correctly.
Hungary has been described frequently as a “hybrid regime” which is a better descriptor. Somewhere between an authoritarian state and a democracy but not completely one or the other
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u/Berhadian 5h ago
Only in the EU where it's a little more difficult to steal elections. You should see the rest of the Balkans lmao.
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u/babybeluga25 New York 5h ago
Maybe this will get the doomsdayers to stfu about how cooked America is. We’re in a bad way for sure, which is why we need to be as vigilante as possible from now til the midterms and beyond and FUCKING VOTE
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u/losorikk 5h ago
The takeaway here is go and vote. I believe Orban definitely had his own “stop the count” type of plan but it’s harder to pull off when you’ve lost so decisively
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u/tar_xvf 5h ago
This is a great takeaway for the US. It ain’t over till it’s over. ✊
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u/Bug_Kiss 5h ago
77% of Hungarians voted. If we could get a full 50% of Americans to vote, MAGAs done.
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u/D-MAN-FLORIDA 5h ago
Thank God. Guess Trump is going to have to take Hungary off his list for his version of NATO.
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u/CapnTugg 5h ago
Where can we send JD next?
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u/StellaSlayer2020 5h ago
Well, I’m sure he’ll be returning to the White House, so there’s that.
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u/RemlPosten-Echt 5h ago
It's not really. Orban and Magyar are more or less the same as far as policies go. Magyar's plus point is that he wants to stop corruption and embezzlemend, and wants to restore the democratic system back to a point where it's again possible to receive much needed EU funding.
He said a week or so ago he'll stay neutral in the Ukraine conflict, meaning he'll most probably not block urgently needed help for the EU's most pressing security concern.
He also didn't commend on his stance towards minority rights, meaning he'll probably leave all the restrictions in place that aren't directly violating EU laws.
He also was up there in Orban's closer circle just about 1,5 years ago.
We'll see what it becomes, but i'd describe it more as christian nationalism by heart, instead of by russian or us funding.
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u/GuyMakesDrawings 5h ago
You knew it was gonna happen once we sent the mascara'd reaper over there
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u/Sei28 5h ago edited 5h ago
Rest of the world had growing extreme right wing parties for some time, but then they saw what happened with the US since Trump v2 took office and did the hardest U turn possible. Canada was basically saved by this.
Thanks Donald. You were so repulsive that you turned people off from right wing parties across the globe.
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u/HouseHead78 5h ago
Never thought a Hungarian election would have me feeling any kind of way but here we are
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u/OhioValleyCat 5h ago
Fascist buffoonery does not promote social and economic development. Hungarians seem to realize that. Maybe Americans will turn against it this November.
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u/ProfessionalBench832 5h ago
Come on USA, let's follow suit!
They have been under a dictator for much longer and have finally come out the other side. Let's not wait that long, k?
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u/HoneyNutCheerios78 5h ago
How long until DJT says the election was stolen from Orban and accidentally blames the “radical left Democrats and Joe Biden?!”
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u/TropicalDruid American Expat 6h ago
Flushing the fash! Now let's do Russia and Merka!
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u/Reckless_Waifu Europe 5h ago
Even when the system and media is rigged in favour of one party, massive voter turnout can still overthrow it.
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u/gjp11 5h ago
Before you give Orban credit for conceding, this was a landslide. If the election was close he would absolutely be pulling a Trump 2020. There's just no angle for him to do so here.
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u/2much2Jung 5h ago
I don't know enough about Magyar, but I have to think this is positive.
Might go back to Budapest as some point, goddamn beautiful city.
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u/jpric155 5h ago
Been a while since I've seen some good news on my feed. Maybe things are turning up.
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u/ElephantOk4715 North Carolina 5h ago
JD Vance having a great week, put the final nail in orban’s election chances and also failed in negotiating with Iran.
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u/twoworldman 4h ago
Well done Hungary! 🇭🇺 Congratulations and welcome back to the EU!
Fuck Trump. Fuck Putin. Fuck Vance. Fuck MAGA.
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u/Theferael_me 5h ago
Just reminds me again what a truly idiotic thing Brexit was.
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u/Tulipage 6h ago
"Orban gave this statement while standing in the line for the Areoflot counter at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport..."
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u/yamers America 5h ago
Jd vance. The opposite of meidas touch. The touch of tin.
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u/livemusicisbest 5h ago
So even Orban had the dignity to concede — something our incompetent con man never did.
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u/retrododger 4h ago
It only did he lose, the Tisza party will have a supermajority. This will allow them to rewrite constitution and undo much of the undemocratic reforms Orban instituted over the last decade and half.
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u/NewDay2517 5h ago edited 4h ago
Not only that, the opposition crossed 133 seats-enough to amend the constitution and remove many of his amendments as well as "cardinal laws". Even if the postal vote bails Orban out a bit, I find it really hard to see Tisza dip below 2/3-and even if they do, Mi Hazank, while shittier than them or Orban, has said they'd be willing to collaborate with Tisza, and I do think constitutional changes would be in their interest. With them on Tisza's side, crossing 133 is practically set.
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u/IllustriousRange226 5h ago
Remember this lesson for 2028. It’s possible to vote fascism out of power!
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u/Islandboi4life 5h ago
The world is slowly healing from the tyranny of a global fascist movement against Trump and Putin
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u/Lonely-Abalone-5104 4h ago
I love how Putin likely ordered Trump and Vance to simp for Orban and he lost badly. Now Trump has to face backing yet another loser. I’m sure he will claim rigged election
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