In other news, we'll be going to Budapest in the summer. The Kreuzette likes to be in Bayern for her birthday, and the train from Salzburg costs but forty quid through the Alps. Our S-i-L still has an inherited apartment in the Old Town which we can use for free - result!
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 8:41 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Orban conceded. He's so fucked, he can't even claim to have been cheated. Be nice if he ended up in clink.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 8:53 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Supermajority now looking distinctly possible.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 8:57 pm
by Boiler
That'll fuck things over for two despots - for now, anyway.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 8:59 pm
by Youngian
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 8:41 pm
Orban conceded. He's so fucked, he can't even claim to have been cheated. Be nice if he ended up in clink.
He's going to have a problem blaming foreign interference what with Netanyahu, Vance and Trump sticking their oars in.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 9:10 pm
by mattomac
Don't worry they will try
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 9:13 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
The level of Orban support among Hungarians Abroad is incredible. Seems to be that he's chucked money at (already nationalist) ethnic Hungarians who live just over the border. I think I spot the first "difficult decision" for the new government...
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 9:30 pm
by kreuzberger
A hard-right, Putin fellating, Trump adjacent kleptocracy get booted out in favour of a centre-right solution to all the country's ills and issues. Let's see how that works out and whether they have the balls to drive for a root and branch reset.
Anyone with breathtaking breasts and squillions in the Cayman Islands can probably sleep easy on their yacht tonight.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 9:38 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
There's a lot of EU money frozen. I would think there's a fair bit of work to unfreeze it.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 9:42 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Anyway, everybody in Eastern Europe is center right or worse.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 9:58 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Looks like they were still going for the Trump denialist approach until they realized how fucked they were.
"Young man hid elderly man's voter ID" is spectacularly desperate. As is "company bosses pressurized people to vote against us". As opposed "company boss pal of Orban buys media and churns out shit against the opposition all the time".
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 7:45 am
by Youngian
No congratulations yet from Kemi for the moderate centre right leader's victory.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 8:24 am
by Bones McCoy
JD Vance, I can't hear over all he WINNING!
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 8:53 am
by Killer Whale
"Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage! Can you hear me?"
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 9:17 am
by Bones McCoy
Or in words the MAGAs can process
"Atomic Wedgie for Orban".
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 9:38 am
by Youngian
The majority was so large Orban conceded defeat in a dignified democratic manner.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 10:24 am
by Tubby Isaacs
Yeah, you can't blame that on a couple of black poll clerks in Atlanta.
Re: Meanwhile In Hungary
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2026 10:41 am
by Boiler
Steve Rosenberg covering the Russian newspapers' take on Orbán's defeat: