With more than 50 percent of votes counted on Sunday, Tisza's Magyar had already secured 136 out of 199 seats, in a clear constitutional majority.
    • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      Thank you! Absolutely incredible, 79.5% voter turnout - people really had enough of Orban

  • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
    25·
    10 days ago

    After 9PM, Orbán phoned Magyar to congratulate him on his victory; Magyar published this on his Facebook page.

    When even Orban is better then Trump…

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Not really a surprise to be honest, already back at the time of COVID he asked full executive authority during the crisis only to relinquish them once the crisis was solved (or anway back under control).

        Not that this assolve him from everything wrong (or bad) he did obviously.

  • Goldholz English
    23·
    10 days ago

    Today we all europeans shall rejoice! One russian spy down! More to go!

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      This would be something to celebrate if we would treat collaboration with the US equally.

      How does this not end in the total dependency on the US?

        • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          You do realize that it was the US, too, backing the Orbans there, right?

          Yes. I think the US is fully lucid about Trump and they were sending Vance to finish Orban. They must still remember how Tesla tanked after Musk supported Trump.

          I am puzzled by Orban. He needed the votes of the center. How can he believe that Vance helps?

          On the other side the US have fully embraced disinformation. Trump is seen as working for Putin while taking out Putin’s allies.

          What people believe doesn’t matter, as long as they are divided. The US switched to coercion. They accept to be hated by the population as long as countries still have to cooperate.

          For the unity of the EU, the election is a success. My fear is that the US has been prepared and is controlling the top. Then that unity will be a disadvantage.

  • huppakee@piefed.socialEnglish
    22·
    10 days ago

    It is a real relief, but somehow i have a bad feeling about him ‘serving the country from the opposition’.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    10 days ago

    About fucking time. I’m proud to say that I’ve contributed to this outcome.

    I’m gonna go dance in the street now.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 days ago

    Good riddance. But trust is earned, so let’s judge the guy until we have seen what he actually did.

    • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      It’s not just Magyar though. We elected the party that was built from the ground up, without any members of the former corrupt leading or opposition parties. Lots of independent business owners and academics. It was a vote for Tisza, and Magyar is the PM with a very strong moral compass towards anti-corruption.

  • birdwingEnglish
    14·
    10 days ago

    First let us keep hopes low; we must learn from Labour in the UK to not overpromise.

    • Riverside@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Or, you know, let’s elect actually progressive socialist parties who won’t claim “whoops budget holes back to austerity” on day zero?

      • birdwingEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        That is what I also want. So let us pull the Overton window back. Talking to these people, constantly on them. They need to be exposed to our views more than to the views of fascists.

        • Riverside@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          Agreed, but then I wouldn’t frame it as “let’s learn from Labour and overpromising”, rather as “let’s send the old fucking neoliberal socdems to hell and become socialists”

          • birdwingEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            There is a message to be said for multiple people. At the core, it is the same.

  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.infoEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    I’m not Hungarian but I was at Batthany ter from 6PM to 2AM and experiencing history by yourself is much different than seeing it on TV. There was a group of high schoolers in front of me who were hugging among eachother constantly once they knew Tisza won, broke my heart.

    When I was coming back, on the shuttle bus to Warsaw Chopin a Hungarian woman was watching a recap of the election night smiling, and when a bird’s eye video of the crowd appeared she was shaking her head in disbelief/pride. Yes, I was watching her phone from above - standing - while she was sitting, shut up

    With those kind of rosy-eyed stories in Poland we say “and then the bus driver sat up and started clapping” and indeed I may be on an emotional high compared to people who just saw the facts on TV, though I don’t even feel a fraction of some Hungarians may be feeling.

    Also I couldn’t join in on any of the chants but the simplest “-ria, -ria, Hungaria” lol

  • Meridula@europe.pubEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    So he does have a two third majority… maybe call me a pessimist, but i believe that orban is either gonna make spme kind of law before where magyar needs more than two third to change something or there is something else going on in the background. I mean, Orban would most likely land in prison if the state really would change?