https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-landmark-election-closely-watched-by-eu-russia-us-2026-04-11/BUDAPEST, April 12 (Reuters) - Hungary's veteran nationalist leader Viktor Orban conceded defeat on Sunday after a landslide election victory by the upstart opposition Tisza party, in a setback for his allies in Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump's White House.Results based on 46% of votes counted showed the centre-right, pro-EU Tisza party of Peter Magyar winning 135 seats - or a crucial two-thirds majority - in the 199-member parliament, ahead of Orban's Fidesz party."The election results are not final yet, but the situation is understandable and clear," Orban said at the Fidesz campaign offices. "The election result is painful for us, but clear."Pollsters predicted a record voter turnout, with Hungarian television showing long queues outside some voting stations in Budapest. Data at 1630 GMT, half an hour before polls were due to close, showed 77.8% of voters casting their ballots, up from 67.8% four years earlier.If the final results confirm the early readings, an end to Orban's period in government after 16 years in power would have significant implications not only for Hungary, but for the European Union, Ukraine and beyond.It would likely spell an end to Hungary's adversarial role inside the EU, possibly opening the way for a 90 billion euro ($105 billion) loan to war-battered Ukraine blocked by Orban.Defeat for Orban could also mean the eventual release of EU funds to Hungary that the bloc had suspended due to what Brussels said was Orban's erosion of democratic standards.Orban's exit would also deprive Russian President Vladimir Putin of his main ally in the EU and send shockwaves through Western right-wing circles, including the White House.In Hungary, a Tisza victory could open the way for reforms that the party says would aim to combat corruption and restore the independence of the judiciary and other institutions.
Orban, a eurosceptic, carved out a model of an "illiberal democracy" seen as a blueprint by Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and its admirers in Europe.But many Hungarians have grown increasingly weary of Orban, 62, after three years of economic stagnation and soaring living costs as well as reports of oligarchs close to the government amassing more wealth.Tisza's leader Magyar appears to have successfully tapped into this frustration.Casting his vote for Tisza in the Hungarian capital, Mihaly Bacsi, 27, said the country needed change."We need an improvement in public mood, there is too much tension in many areas and the current government only fuels these sentiments," he said.Another voter, who gave her name as Zsuzsa, said she wanted continuity."I would really like if all the results that have been achieved in recent years remain - and I am terribly afraid of the war," she said, referring to the conflict raging in Ukraine, Hungary's eastern neighbour.Orban sought to cast Sunday's election as a choice between "war and peace". During campaigning, the government blanketed the country with signs warning that Magyar would drag Hungary into Russia's war with Ukraine, something he strongly denies.
Imagine shilling for Putin in a European country.
>support Trump>lose electionpottery
>>1505734>Hungary's Viktor Orbàn concedes landmark defeatI'll be pleasantly surprised if he actually just leaves power without stirring some shit.There's still the chance of him coming back in the future, but let's hope it won't come to that. Also the opposition party will most likely get over 133 seats in parliament, which means they can change legislation by themselves.
>>1505738>Interact with JD Vance>Misfortune falls upon youWhy aren't we sending him to our enemies so they slip and break their backs or some shit?
>>1505743>Also the opposition party will most likely get over 133 seats in parliamentHoly fuck, that was in serious doubt. The far right actually got blown the fuck out, huh?
>>1505745>Why aren't we sending him to our enemiesWe are. Right now in fact.
Are we sure Vance isn't an Etsy witch?
RUSSIA LOSES ANOTHER PAWN PUTIN WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE MAN WHO DESTROYED RUSSIAN GLOBAL POWER PROJECTION FOR GENERATIONS TO COME
I'm more shocked that Orban conceded. But he must be the more old school authoritarian that just would rather slink off to the sunset. As opposed to trump who can and will stage a coup.
>>1505750In the span of a week, JD Vance>Was supposed to help Orban get reelected: Failed so miserably his party literally got BTFOed by a supermajority>Was supposed to negotiate with Iran: Failed so miserably negotiations fell apart completely and now Trump is threatening to blockade the Strait himself as he struggles to figure out what to do>Was supposed to become the new fraud czar: Failed immediately because he instantly tried to shill his own shitty book
>>1505757probably realized that losing by that much of a supermajority would just get him locked up frame 1 for trying a coup like that South Korean president last year.
>>1505753Well he fucked that up for us. We need to send him to campaign for political figures we DON'T want in power.
>>1505757Orban can now retire to the countryside and raise chickens, grow his own vegetables, fishing whenever he wants to, and breed Vizslas. He had a good run
>>1505762lmao no. He probably has an impending corruption trial that'll send him to a jail cell for the remainder of his life.
>>1505758What was he saying about not allowing his wife to go skydiving?
>>1505738In this case it's>support Putin>lose election
>>1505764some bullshit metaphor he was trying to use to say why Iran shouldn't do what the US doesn't want them to do. Didn't work at all considering talks fell apart seemingly the moment he stepped through the door.
>>1505766Assuming he was saying Iran is the wife in this metaphor. Bit rude
>>1505734>russia and usa losing influence and support faster than you can say china will grow larger What is it with despots going full retard this decade?
>>1505771They always burn themselves out.
>>1505767Here's the full quote:>The second thing Ghalibaf said, which, again, I found fascinating, is he said, ‘We refuse to give up the right to enrichment.’ And I thought to myself, You know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn’t jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement that she’s not going to do that, because I don’t want my wife jumping out of an airplane. We don’t really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do. We concern ourselves with what they actually do. And I think the President has been very clear on the enrichment question, our position on that has not changed.So yeah, Iran is his wife in this metaphor, and it's a pretty fucking stupid metaphor regardless. As far as I understand it, he's basically saying "uh, we aren't going to give you the right to enrich uranium because we don't want you actually doing it."
>>1505760>>1505753>>1505745It's less our enemies and more, the opposite of what conservatives want.
>>1505771Putin was always going to keep invading the neighbours. Trump is just a fucking idiot, all he had to do was tell the Zionists to stop murdering civilians otherwise we cut your funding and stay the fuck out of everything else over there and rein in the ICE bullshit just basically chill out a bit and he could still get away with the Venezuela stuff and all the crypto stuff and build his fucking ballroom and all that other arc of triumph shit. Instead he has threatened to invade Canada and Greenland and now has no allies
>>1505777But if he tries to stop his wife by beating her she drugs him and cuts his balls off
>>1505759Honestly depends on how much of the military he controls. The South Korean coup failed because he had zero military support so they just showed up and did nothing when the legislators and people fought back and it instantly collapsed. trump on the other hand has his entire brown shirt paramilitary group of ICE and has been using his dunkard to purge the military of anyone who is not directly loyal to him, plus there's the issue of the military being inundated with white supremacists. Also Republicans will defend trump to the last man given they still defended him after his first coup.
>>1505780The ballroom shit is the craziest one to me.>sir maybe we should save some of our political capital since we're pretty unpopular and we're staring down a democrat house>I WANT STATUES AND A BIG ARCH AND GOLD BUSTS AND NAME EVERY BODY OF WATER THE TRUMP TRIBUTARY AND-this is the thing people in 2016 said he was going to do and didn't end up doing, only now finally starting to do it
>>1505783This cuts both ways, purging the military of everyone not loyal to you just means the people who aren't loyal to you lay low and wait for you to be at your weakest.
>>1505780>all he had to do was tell the Zionists to stop murdering civiliansWoah cool it with the antisemitism
https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026?filter=orszagosCurrent results.This was a total wipe out for Orban since the opposition now has a super majority.
>>1505786Hard to say there's anyone left, also there's the issue of the rank and file just following trump's order for a coup given you already the blackhawks in Tennessee that buzzed peaceful protestors, I wouldn't be shocked if it was an exercise to target them in case trump does stage a coup.
>>1505790>trumps gross incompetence just cost Putin another supporter How do you think he is feeling right now
>>1505783I don't think the navy are following Trump's orders for the most part. They refused to go closer than 350 when they were told to get right in there because they don't want to charge of the light brigade themselves into history
How do we know the election wasn't stolen? Leftists are always stealing elections.
>>1505796The party favoured by the US government lost though
>>1505796>pedophile announces he's mad conservatives failed to steal the elections.>>1505797Also this, look at all the elections the US and heritage foundation rigged. Especially Argentina.
>>1505780>Trump is just a fucking idiot, all he had to do was tell the Zionists to stop murdering civiliansWhy the fuck do you think Evangelicals voted for Trump, lmao?>rein in the ICEWhy the fuck do you think Republicans voted for Trump, lmao?
>>1505796>Leftists are always stealing elections.Neither party is leftist.
>>1505784He should never have been president
>>1505784>how dare the President build things
>>1505784This is basically what trump wants.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYURxfaTdpYThe only answer is to destroy or rename everything with his name on it and punish those who defend it.
>>1505801Euromutts don't have a real right wing party. You got commies on one side and Democrats on the other.
>>1505807What has he built? Also, yes, monuments are a waste of money.
>>1505814>Pedophile admitting he's a fascist and anything that remotely helps the people is communism
>>1505817Actually private companies who want preferential tariff deals will front the bill and materials. You people are so fucking retarded we're making so much money off tariffs we're literally being given free gifts and tribute by foreign subjects. Its Roman emperior-tier winning and you're too propagandized by the MSM to realize it
>>1505823god you're esl
>>1505814Orban is far right, Magyar is center-right.You have to be a radicalize lunatic to think otherwise.
>>1505823>corruption is le good
>>1505823>our real friends were the Muslims we hated along the way
>>1505823If all that shit actually went to helping the people instead of building a ballroom and other stupid shit sure you would be right but currently we are getting nothing but increased prices on everything.
>>1505814>Euromutts don't have a real right wing partyGood.Rightards don't have a right to any political power whatsoever.>Butthurt Viktor SorbumYour so-called 'Strong Man' of eastern Europe is gone. Magyar is pro-EU. Starmer congratulated him just now.When Nigey is (Un)Reform(ed) by losing to the Green Party, and is FaRAGING at 'Voter Fraud' that never happened, the right is failing. Good.
>>1505807it will never get built that fat yid will just run away with the money
>>1505823>Can't even use domestic material to build his vanity projects Amazing how the conservatively controlled media just let this one go.
>>1505833>Trump is so shit he killed the entire anti-EU faction of the EU by association lmao you love to see it.
>>1505823lol. ok where’s my tariff check, migatard?
>>1505839The anti-EU faction was destined to fail ever since Brexit nuked Britain's economy
>>1505841True but it really does look like Trump trying to keep Orban in power just fucked him over. Combined with the right-wing in Canada instantly losing a massive chunk of voters right after he came in, it really does seem like he's so bad at his job he's making the entire far-right look less appealing worldwide.
>>1505839>Trump is so shit he killed the entire anti-EU faction of the EU by association>lmao you love to see it.The MAGAtards visualized - via AI slop - Trump as the Emperor of Mankind. Well, that has blown up in their faces. Even as a supposedly all-powerful 'god' after early last year, he's now weakened after a war and is on a chair.And according to WH40K, the Golden Throne is already failing.
>>1505750>The far right actually got blown the fuck out, huh?Orban started as far left.He really only stands for gaining power and wealth.
>>1505757>I'm more shocked that Orban concededI think everyone is but those numbers are hard to argue with and an actual coup inside the EU has near zero chance of success. I'm sure there's been some discussion behind closed doors about if Magyar finds polonium in his tea.
>>1505807I'm not going to lieI think building statues and shit of himself and naming buildings and bodies of water after himself is actually kind of based .It's the kind of thing you would see cartoon characters do to illustrate how vain and stupid they are. It's not particularly smart, definitely not, but it is based. It's the kind of thing I would picture Bevis and Butthead doing. Nah I take that back they would make everything a dick or a sex joke. Maybe some equally out-of-touch cartoon character like Dr Robotnik
>>1505823>Actually private companies who want preferential tariff deals will front the bill and materials. Based.Legalized bribery is another thing that a ridiculous cartoon character would do
>>1505771>What is it with despots going full retard this decade?Just this decade?Despotism is inherently stupid, it's just a bad choice all round.Such people will always fuck up when the stakes are raised and the pressure is on.
>>1505792>>trumps gross incompetence just cost Putin another supporterIt had nothing to do with Trump, one way or another. It was a defector from Orban's party who rallied and united a very chaotic opposition and hammered away at Orban for three years straight.
>>1505850>>1505771this. This is why dictatorships are almost universally failed shitholes that never accomplish anything other than assisting millions to people to state-sanctioned suicide. Dictators, especially the egotistical fragile ones, break down and cower when they suddenly aren't the most powerful person in the room holding all the cards. It's why Saddam immediately went and hid inside of a hole in the ground while all of his officers and heads of state were trying to quell rebellion and fight a war they ultimately lost. I'm sure once the impeachments start rolling in, Trump already has a little Trump-sized hidey-hole under Mar-A-Largo that he'll cower in from the music.
>>1505796>Leftists are always stealing elections.Orban is technically a leftist, in practice he doesn't really stand for anything except fucking shit up.
>>1505853This, he was teh funny doomer meme vote and that's why he won the first time.
Oh well, Orban is Or-gone, and all Trump can do is seethe and hope Orban claims it was due to mail-in voter fraud because he actually won a landslide with 80 million votes or something.But hey, it's not like Trump doesn't have good relations with other European coun- Oh wait.
>>1505734Why would someone concede an election based on only 46% of votes being counted? Elections in dictatorships are rigged and stolen routinely. What was different this time?
>>1505857EU and EU-adjacent countries don't go full dictator, they go corrupt democracy instead. It's harder to justify harsh measures against. The downside is that it's possible to overthrow you if you become enough and the propaganda stops working.
>>1505796Well. Let's look at turnout in the past 30 years at 1pm for comparison:1998: 32,58%2002: 40,19%2006: 38,22%2010: 35,88%2014: 34,33%2018: 42,32%2022: 40,01%2026: 54,14%Look at those numbers. Yes. Obviously they cheated. The left stole the election, again. Such a dramatic increase can only mean one thing, faked votes. There needs to be an audit. Check it dead people voted, check if immigrants voted, check fucking everything or democracy dies in darkness.
>>1505847I guess I'm too used to the amount of shit trump will claim to cope about losing.
>>1505870first let's check your hard drive
>>1505870>Guys more people voted during a time of great geopolitical turmoil>Obviously this means they must be cheating!
>>1505870lol yeah nothing at all in world politics has been happening since 2022 that could swing voters against rightoids. migatard iq on full display again.
The moral of the story is once you seize power, you need to arrest your political opponents and jail them indefinitely.
>>1505875Trump is trying to do that, the problem is he's a total retard and everyone he tries to prosecute is getting acquitted
>>1505875the moral of the story is democracy is fragile but beautiful because we can elect corrupt autocrats into power but you always have an opportunity to send them packing. But it requires an educated populace who can recognize and do so before the rot becomes permanent
>>1505871>I guess I'm too used to the amount of shit trump will claim to cope about losingOrban is corrupt but not stupid or mentally ill.Well, maybe a psychopath but not an irrational one.
>>1505875>once you seize power, you need to arrest your political opponents and jail them indefinitely.That doesn't work in the EU, there are courts you can't control. They did everything else to fuck with the opposition though, which is why it took years and multiple parties were suppressed and died off before someone rallied enough opposition.
>Starmergeddon with a 400+ seat majority destroying the Conservatives in UK on 4th July 2024>a supermajority in Hungary in April 2026What's happened in US between then & now with elections here.The omens aren't looking good for the GOP in the midterms, certainly 2028. Total MAGA Death sooner or later is inevitable.
>>1505882>BeautifulAll democracies are brown, full of brown skinned people.>Corrupt>AutocratYou just described the leftists. Orban was fighting the corrupt autocrats.
>>1505910nobody can hear you esl shill, you need to take the dick out of your mouth
>>1505906Problem is red voters are fairly concentrated in red states and red states themselves are fairly gerrymandered.If we're fucking lucky though, we might start to see some dummymanders and with the new practice of redrawing district lines whenever it is convenient we could finally see some red states turned purple with blue legislatures and reps from now on.Texas is the big one, though I'm not holding my breath. I'll definitely love to see Wisconsin's legislature finally unfucked. That's inevitable at this point.
>>1505757The stakes for unpopular authoritarians in Europe are historically high.
>>1505911>esl shillPretty sure they're just trolling.>All democracies are brownSee?
>>1505914Texas will forever be fools gold for democrats unless they pass national legislation to bust up all the gerrymadners
>>1505918>national legislation to bust up all the gerrymadnersIsn't there current jurisprudence from the supremes that gerrymandering is a state's own business?
>>1505920That's why you bust up the republican supreme court and undo all their republican edicts first.
>>1505921>bust up the republican supreme courtNeeds 2/3s senate majority to impeach, right?Or a president with a simple majority to stack it.
>>1505922>Or a president with a simple majority to stack it.Pretty much this. We need to ditch the filibuster, pack the courts, then push through anti-corruption reforms like against gerrymandering as well as statehood for Puerto Rico and DC and hold onto power long enough for the political middle to drift out of range of Republicans since if they get power again with the filibuster gone, they'll just reverse everything before it can take effect and go even further right than the current shitshow.Problem is, that'd require Dems with a spine and probably at least 4 years of holding all 3 branches and the dipshit middle of this country are goldfish that love going against the party in power if they haven't brought about utopia 6 months after being elected in.
>>1505922Who says you need to impeach? >Nuke Filibuster>Add 4 seats to better represent the make up of the American people>And an enforcing ethic codes with criminal prosecution. (Which you can immediately use to remove Alito and Thomas for their corrupt dealings)>Also adding a 18 year term limits where each president gets to select 3 justices.
>>1505926Did you read the second unquoted sentence of my post?
>>1505927Point out the entire process of how to do it and how to weaken the republican old given a 2/3rds majority isn't going to happen unless democrats play super hard ball. (Start programs to get liberals to move into sparely populated republicans states to take their senators, break up California into 5 states, but have it so that democrats control all of them so they go from 2 to 10 senates, and grant both DC and Puerto Rico statehood and their own senators.
>>1505870There is nothing wrong with your voting. Do not attempt to adjust the poll. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it lefter we will bring up the socialists. If we wish to make it centre, we will tune in the libtards. We will control the left. We will control the right. We can roll the politicians, make them stutter.We can change the political focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the rest of your life, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your voting.You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... Socialist Utopia!!!!
>>1505918Carter became president due to a blue Texas>gerrymadners>mad>and >>1505918 is mad because she'll never be a man>>1505910Hi esl shill that thinks it's so strongBecome weak by facts proving you wrongWhite Starmer beat Sunak the Conservative jeetThis destroys your opinion, that's neat
>>1505933N'YUCK N'YUCK
>>1505933That was also before the Southern strategy was completed by Reagan so the deep south racists are a solid block of republicans.
>>1505933YWNBAWPWhat time is it in East Asia?
>>1505936Oopsy, I meant South Asia
>>1505936>>1505937Around quarter past failure for you & your posts
I didn't even realize trump tried to openly interfere in the Hungarian election like he bribed the Argentinians https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-economic-support-viktor-orban-hungarian-election/
He lost because Rob Schneider campaigned for him
>>1506179>Rob Schneider It's amazing how this guy was a one hit wonder on SNL, then only survived ridding on the coat tails of everyone else. No wonder he's a MIGA.
>>1505944rightwing billionaires are like:>i care so much about mass migration. western civilization itself is at stake. i will spare no expense. wait an election didn’t turn out how i wanted, never mind
>>1505734Oh cool his replacement just revealed Orban was actually funding CPAC with Hungarian government funds, and likely under Putin's influence too. Wonder if this is a house of cards about to come tumbling down.
>>1506247What’s CPAC?
>>1506248>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_ConferenceBig right-wing political event. The fact they were receiving Hungarian taxpayer dollars and then campaigned for Orban means they violated the fuck out of financial laws in Hungary.
>>1506249Orban should GTFO now before they arrest him
>>1506250>Orban should GTFO now before they arrest himHe's got about two months before the new government is in.Péter Magyar was a senior Fidesz official for ages, he joined when they were in opposition. He knows a lot of dirt (he already brought down a president and his ex-wife the minister of justice) and he doesn't have access to government files (again) yet so he's leaking this now for some other reason. Possibly just a way of telling Orban to fuck off to Moscow.The whole saga is hilarious to me because it's literally a divorce case that turned so bad it brought down an authoritarian hybrid regime.
