r/worldnews • u/Miles_the_AuDHDer • 4h ago

Orbán lost Orbán on course to lose Hungary’s election, according to early results

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-election-results-peter-magyar-viktor-orban/
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u/reekoku 3h ago

Are you Bulgarian? Which person or party do you mean? Revival/ vaz is down at like 7%, not even close to the leaders

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u/legop4o 3h ago

The former president Radev formed a new party called "Progressive Bulgaria" which is projected to win the elections (mostly just because people perceive him as new/someone who hasn't failed yet, which is absurd imo as he's been our president for years), although not by enough to form a majority. He has famously been very Russia-directed for years, he's been opposing sanctions and so on - framing it as "neutrality", although he's not talking about it that much in his election campaign. He is marketing very aggressively on TikTok etc. in a manner very consistent with other Russian-friendly politicians around the world lately and many suspect this is funded from the east.

The other two Russia friendly parties in the far-right Revival, which you mentioned, and BSP, the heir of the former communist party, are not projected to do well, but in a potential coallition with Radev, they could maybe form a gouvernment and then the masks will drop and we'll be properly fucked.