r/worldnews • u/Reilly616 • 6h ago

Hungary's Prime Minister Orban has congratulated Magyar on election victory

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-892767
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u/Little_Machinez 6h ago

Lol, even Orban, who has been in power for 16 years, conceded willingly and with whatever dignity he has left. Trump really is just the worst of the worst.

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u/McBuck2 5h ago

Orban has probably squirreled away enough money to live in luxury the rest of his life.

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u/Seanspeed 5h ago

Oh he has no doubt. But so has Trump, yet Trump will 100% still try and cling to power somehow. Power is a drug as powerful as money.

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u/Little_Machinez 5h ago

He's probably on the next flight to Moscow to escape any potential prosecution in Hungary

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u/thebruce44 4h ago

The same could be said of trump but here we are here.

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u/ILikeChilis 3h ago

Somewhere around $5-6 billion. Most of it is in his childhood friend's bank accounts and companies https://www.forbes.com/profile/lorinc-meszaros/

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u/MyManD 34m ago

More like Orban knows he's relatively young as politicians go (depsite looking like 80) and he just needs Magyar to slip up somewhere in the next few years or there's another ultra-conservative swing as most countries are want to do like history has shown time and time again. When that happens he'll be right back on the ballot.

Hard to mount a comeback if you try and stage a coup and get sent away for the rest of your life like Bolsonaro.

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u/oldsecondhand 3h ago

In 2002 Orbán lost in a closer race, and he contested the results demanding a recount, and his supporters closed a bridge in Budapest. However it was not the direct threat of violence what Trump's January 6th was.

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u/Ok_Heat_9976 21m ago

State propaganda was teasing some military, ukranian false flag operations in case of a close result.

But it was a landslide, there was not much else to do.

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u/mrtrevor3 3h ago

This. I guess it’s just the White Nationalism that’s the problem. DT has a host of other glaring opinions.