Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat

comrade1234•1 hour ago

Again!? The Hungarians just can't stop winning!

(An article with this topic was flagged like 15 minutes ago)

Symbiote•1 hour ago

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743553

comrade1234•1 hour ago

Looking 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)

andsoitis•2 hours ago

This is fantastic news!

tgv•1 hour ago

It is. This is fairly significant. Congratulations to the Hungarian people.

doctaj•1 hour ago

https://archive.ph/jjKHe

ggm•1 hour ago

It 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.

AlexeyBrin•1 hour 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 ?

seba_dos1•27 minutes ago

The right-wing isn't exactly known for being internally consistent and easy to follow, but the current Polish president that has been recently elected comes from a right-wing environment that's allied with Orban. That said, the president does not have a lot of power in Poland and what he does have mostly comes from the ability to obstruct the government's work with vetoes.

thrance•32 minutes ago

Both governments are (were?) similarly right-wing. Poland's is indeed pro-Ukraine but also very pro-Trump.

seba_dos1•26 minutes ago

The 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.

benterix•16 minutes ago

Poland is very anti-Trump, just like the rest of Europe. However, the current president is from a right-wing fraction that decided to support Trump and now has a very hard time explaining to their votes his every crazy move.

mytailorisrich•12 minutes ago

It is testament to the power of propaganda in Europe that being euroskeptic or anti-immigration is deemed a "wrong opinion" at official level troughout the continent... in French there is a famous expression for this unique "correct" opinion across the board: pensée unique (single thought).

mckirk•1 hour ago

The fact that Orban is called Viktor as his first name meant your first sentence confused me greatly for a second.

ggm•16 minutes ago

"The Victor" would be like "The Donald"

burnt-resistor•35 minutes ago

~78% voter turnout. Democracy won!

IAmGraydon•1 hour ago

Truly a great day for the Hungarian people, for Europe, and for the free world. Congrats, and thank you for doing your part, Hungary!

cjbenedikt•2 hours ago

Just ask JD Vance to speak for any right wing party's support. That'll fix that...

GeoPolAlt•7 minutes ago

The 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.

spacedcowboy•1 hour ago

Unless you're the pope. Don't let him near you if you're the pope...

burnt-resistor•28 minutes ago

It'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?

Mert_Predicts•38 minutes ago

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