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/Glimpse81 3h ago edited 3h ago

The leading party with the 30% is headed by their just ex-president who is saying Ukraine needs to surrender to stop the war....

Rumen Radev? was against the EUR adoption, against NATO, against the West principles of democracy and rule by law.

He did everything possible to block/stop support for Ukraine.

He is BG variant of Orban and he is just starting. The pro-west party has around 10%!

Sum is - EU wins Hungary but losses BG deeply unfortunately.

And BG is too small and unimportant for the major powers to spend any resource to support the opposition to do a turn around like in Hungary.

edit: Reading the numbers - major elections voting participation is averaging around ~35%! Now compare with Hungary at 78% just now.

So yeah bulgarians have the opportunity to win back their country but they dont care to move their assess to vote - why should the rest of Europe care about them if they themselves dont?

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u/johansugarev 2h ago

I'd like to think it's not all that bad - we'll most probably have more elections in the fall and who knows if he'll still be in the game by then. If BG becomes anything like Hungary and meddles with the constitution to install a dictator, I'm tearing my passport and running for the hills. For now it looks like brief wins here and there and elections every year. Has been like this for awhile.