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[–] 32 points 7 months ago* (14 children)

Anyone know anything about the new guy? It's almost surprising that Orbán was willing to concede.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    Still conservative, but EU-favorable instead of deliberately obstructionist. It's definitely a heavy blow to Putin, because this might pave the way for meaningful long-term support (or goodness, perhaps even future EU membership) to reach Ukraine.

    Edit: Tangential, but this election has me wondering why I haven't seen much online discourse trying to shame voters for supporting Tisza when they could have voted for the Workers' Party, DK, or the Greens.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    On your tangent: it's easy. All the "true" opposition were united against Fidesz, and only vote-sucking Fidesz-collaborationists were running additionally.

    The FPTP system put in place 16 years ago demanded this. Hungary will do better after a long overdue electoral reform.

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  • [–] 28 points 7 months ago (7 children)
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    I know that this sounds crazy, considering how world leaders usually behave nowadays, but it is possible that he was just kind of tired of being in charge and thinks that Magyar (who does share the vast majority of Orban's values) is a decent enough replacement who won't start any corruption court cases against him.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Magyar confirmed in his victory speech that he will in fact start those cases.

    Or rather the independent juicidary and the new "National Wealth Reclamation Agency" will.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    It's actually a good question, he wants wealth taxes and term limits, but waves Hungarian flags around and quotes Reagan.

    He's a hardline pro-EU nationalist who likes socialist policies and hates rich people.

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