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Hungary Elections April 2026: Orbán Concedes to Pro-European Populist Party

HavokFour said:
Another very significant change in direction coming with this change in government.

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Hungary must arrest Netanyahu if he visits, Magyar says

Israeli PM Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, is due to visit Hungary later this year.
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another thing coming out today was Orbans government was directly funding organizations in the US tied to republican elections campaigns, which may violate US law.
 
Orban had both Washington and Moscow backing him? That's the weirdest timeline. When the US and Russia agree on something, you know you're on the wrong side. Good for Hungary. Good for democracy.
 
MilEME09 said:
another thing coming out today was Orbans government was directly funding organizations in the US tied to republican elections campaigns, which may violate US law.
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Whoops. Not that it’ll get investigated for the next couple years.
 
caleb377 said:
Orban had both Washington and Moscow backing him? That's the weirdest timeline. When the US and Russia agree on something, you know you're on the wrong side. Good for Hungary. Good for democracy.
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It is both America's and Russia's interests to keep the EU internally fractured. It keeps Europe dependant on America for protection from Russia and China, and keeps Russia safe from further EU influence on its borders.

A unified Europe could be the next superpower if it wanted to be.
 
Interesting piece on the winner's past - having split away from Team Orban ...
slashnews.co.uk

The Defector s Gambit

On April 12, Viktor Orbán conceded defeat in Hungary’s parliamentary election after 16 years in power. Three million voters handed a two-thirds supermajority...
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with a bit of a lesson re: autocratic regimes:
... the structural lesson is clear. The mechanism that broke Orbán’s grip was not sanctions or conditionality or foreign pressure. It was a man who sat inside the machine, understood how it worked, and decided to take it apart. That is the defector’s gambit. It is the one weakness that autocrats, for all their institutional engineering, have never figured out how to prevent ...
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Originally here yesterday, but now gone and no Google Cache version out there, either. Archived version of the attributed cut/paste version here.
 
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