Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result

card_zero

Ooooh. I didn't think it would happen. This disturbs the balance a bit.

lysace

Welcome back to Europe, Hungary.

chollida1

Sad commentary on the modern world where my first thought was, well good for Orban to concede defeat. Not all current world heads of state have that much maturity. This bodes well for the midterm state of the European union.

croisillon

contesting election results untruthfully always existed, but since 2021 the result is not the headline anymore, the concession is

tomalaci

Amazing news for EU! If Tisza can get supermajority after votes are counted then they can also easily reverse a lot of constitutional corruption in Hungary done by Orban.

seper8

Thank god Vance showed up to support him!

comrade1234

Flagged due to sour grapes.

workfromspace

Happy for Hungary! Unfortunatlely, half democracies (ie representative) are open to abuse and give too much power to presidents or governments. Combined with populism, lobbying and corruption, it allows people like Orban to stay in power for a long time. Glad it's over.

Jamesbeam

I knew the projections were looking really grim for Orban after watching JD Vance putting Trump on speakerphone five days ago during his Hungary visit. That was awkward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GUoCvIMrgc They must be really tired of winning by now. What? 4$ gas until November Mr.President? Who doesn’t love paying 30% more for Gas out of their pocket for a war that is already won. Tremendous work Mr. President. A capital V victory.

surgical_fire

Good. I visited Hungary years ago, and I loved the time I spent there. It saddened me a bit to see its sliding into autocracy and being relegated to be a Russian vassal state. Hopefully the damage Orban caused to Hugarian institutions get reversed.

sph

It all seems so easy, despite the efforts of Putin and the US to support a guy that was there for almost two decades. I wonder if the incumbent party is, somehow, in the pocket of those fascists. I have a hard time accepting they’d just shrug and move on from being able to control a puppet state that’s the thorn in EU’s side. Any reason not to be so cynical? I am unfamiliar with the details of Hungarian politics, but I can’t help wondering if it is staged. And why would Orbán just roll over after all this time in power?

Scipio_Afri

Why is this and all other posts about this flagged?

Whatarethese

It really feels like the tides are turning against the cancer that is populism.