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Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat
- cjbenedikt 7mo agoJust ask JD Vance to speak for any right wing party's support. That'll fix that...
- spacedcowboy 7mo agoUnless you're the pope. Don't let him near you if you're the pope...
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoIt's kinda gross that the Nazi lite Kremlin-backed party currently has 54 seats and the Nazi equivalent party has 7 so far. And it's not like Tisza isn't neoliberal-neocon, pro-billionaire, and pro-privatization as it's nothing like a liberal democracy progressive party at all. Maybe Elon, JD, and Orbán should tour all together and bring some Putin portraits with them to inspire support?
- GeoPolAlt 7mo agoThe silver lining to the Trump presidency is that other countries get to see what a modern far-right government looks like before condemning their own country to the same fate.
- andsoitis 7mo agoThis is fantastic news!
- tgv 7mo agoIt is. This is fairly significant. Congratulations to the Hungarian people.
- ggm 7mo agoIt should be noted the victorious party with a super majority is hardly left wing. Like other non Hungarians I'm glad, but the substantial questions around Hungarian postures to the EU, towards migrants, persisting antisemitism remain. How this affects geopolitics by removing a bloated Tic of pro Russian propaganda and veto voting is worth watching. I'm hopeful it has some immediate effect regarding funds and support for Ukraine, but Poland and Slovakia remain. It's good to be hopeful. It's good to be realistic.
- mckirk 7mo agoThe fact that Orban is called Viktor as his first name meant your first sentence confused me greatly for a second.
- ggm 7mo ago"The Victor" would be like "The Donald"
- AlexeyBrin 7mo ago> How this affects geopolitics by removing a bloated Tic of pro Russian propaganda and veto voting is worth watching. I'm hopeful it has some immediate effect regarding funds and support for Ukraine, but Poland and Slovakia remain. I don't follow, Poland is anti-Russian and pro-Ukraine. Where do you see the similarity between Orban regime and current Poland government ?
- thrance 7mo agoBoth governments are (were?) similarly right-wing. Poland's is indeed pro-Ukraine but also very pro-Trump.
- seba_dos1 7mo agoThe pro-Trump government has lost the last parliamentary election in 2023. The new one is still rather on the right side, but it's a coalition of several parties, none of which goes as far right as the previous gov (and one even has "left" in its name, though it's centre-left at best) and it's definitely not pro-Trump.
- comrade1234 7mo agoAgain!? The Hungarians just can't stop winning! (An article with this topic was flagged like 15 minutes ago)
- Symbiote 7mo agoHere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743553
- doctaj 7mo agohttps://archive.ph/jjKHe https://archive.ph/jjKHe
- IAmGraydon 7mo agoTruly a great day for the Hungarian people, for Europe, and for the free world. Congrats, and thank you for doing your part, Hungary!
- comrade1234 7mo agoLooking forward to Hungary winning Eurovision this year. :) (not joking - it's completely political - people that don't vote in their national elections vote in Eurovision)
- Mert_Predicts 7mo ago[dead]
- burnt-resistor 7mo ago~78% voter turnout. Democracy won!
- weird_tentacles 7mo ago[dead]