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Bwaaaaah hahaha
Magyar says Orban called to congratulate him😀
demmiblue
(39,789 posts)According to Péter Magyar, incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called to concede the election.
— Justin Ling (@justinling.ca) 2026-04-12T19:18:58.463Z
Jilly_in_VA
(14,445 posts)malaise
(296,648 posts)Damn😀
malaise
(296,648 posts)😀
Easterncedar
(6,350 posts)Shady V did Orban no good! Oh the CPAC crowd gonna be sad
SergeStorms
(20,633 posts)and the most admired world leader by right-wingnuts goes down! 🥳
The Big Orange Fascist Pig must be crestfallen, because he sees what's in store for him after this November
Easterncedar
(6,350 posts)If Orban couldn't rig this vote maybe we can hold onto ours. But I won't gloat over this win until Orban is truly gone.
malaise
(296,648 posts)😀
Easterncedar
(6,350 posts)Thanks, y'all!
moonscape
(5,764 posts)T more determined if thats possible.
Hell be so determined that he will turn himself into Cheebus to win a third election!
LetMyPeopleVote
(180,380 posts)malaise
(296,648 posts)Holy shit😀
B.See
(8,568 posts)Trump and JD Slick, SUCCEEDED,
beyond MY wildest dreams.
If ever there WAS an "undecided" before their meddling, they sure as hell killed that.
Have to wonder which of the two despots the people hated MORE.
COL Mustard
(8,268 posts)The trip to Hungary, or the trip to Pakistan?
Oh, wait...BOTH failed!!! So much for Shady Vance's political future.
AloeVera
(4,302 posts)Really helps with fixing the country. Including the constitutional changes required to fix Orban's mess.
Deuxcents
(27,129 posts)Solly Mack
(97,011 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(180,380 posts)BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbánâs long grip on power.
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-04-12T19:21:14.044Z
malaise
(296,648 posts)Putin
liberalla
(11,140 posts)Bravo, Hungary!!!
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True Dough
(26,856 posts)Suck it, Pooty!

Doodley
(11,959 posts)dweller
(28,480 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,090 posts)was not the flex they thought it was.
Takket
(23,732 posts)one of drumpf's #1 allies. someone he described as a great and powerful leader. no, the people are powerful.
Today we will celebrate... tomorrow, we must be vigilant, because the message drumpf just received was "if you let the people vote, you will lose", and he's going to redouble his efforts to take away our right to vote.
malaise
(296,648 posts)Trump promises economic support to Orbán ahead of crucial Hungary vote
Trumps pledge to use the full economic might of the U.S. to help the Hungarian economy comes as Orban trails in the polls going into Sundays election.
Mouthamassie shoukd shut up.
calimary
(90,243 posts)I guess some folks just need to realize that, and accept it.
malaise
(296,648 posts)Vote as if your life depend on it for it does
moondust
(21,302 posts)Might be a good time for the EU to move away from the unanimity requirement.
The unanimity trap: what is the EU veto and why is it so hard to reform?
Vinca
(54,092 posts)malaise
(296,648 posts)😀
Blue_Roses
(13,896 posts)His "word" means nothing and now the whole world knows it.
malaise
(296,648 posts)Word was available to the planet that Orban was about to lose - youd think the intelligence peeps told him although he fired the professionals.
Shady Couch was bad enough but Slobby made it worse with the stupid promise. They look like idiots who didnt see this coming.
Blue_Roses
(13,896 posts)because he lives in his own narcissistic bubble. The scarey thing about that is him going scorched earth when reality hits.
malaise
(296,648 posts)😀
Blue_Roses
(13,896 posts)spooky3
(38,692 posts)F off, loser!
GoCubsGo
(34,941 posts)that Orban would successfully rig the election in his favor. If he tried, he has failed.
LetMyPeopleVote
(180,380 posts)malaise
(296,648 posts)Landslide victory😀
Charmin One
(384 posts)I know Trump set a very low bar on this, but at least Orban has the decency to admit defeat and concede.
thought crime
(1,630 posts)Does the EU set some standards for election process?
róisín_dubh
(12,350 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:55 AM - Edit history (1)
Ive wanted to visit Hungary since I was about 8.
Im now 48 and would sell a kidney to take a train there from London. And now I can because that fucker is gone.
ColoringFool
(775 posts)róisín_dubh
(12,350 posts)And between them and the latest iPhone update, I make 901 typos. 😬
dalton99a
(94,498 posts)

Vogon_Glory
(10,307 posts)Hungary has far more amenities than Belarus and the Persian Gulf states are not only boiling hot but rather close to Iran.
callous taoboy
(4,791 posts)I might have to go get a sixer!
LSparkle
(12,206 posts)Hoping Ukraine can likewise be freed at last from PooTins lurking ... Heck, when does Turkey vote next? Might it be time to say buh-bye to Erdogan? :
DinahMoeHum
(23,631 posts)n/t
LSparkle
(12,206 posts)DFW
(60,286 posts)As soon as Erdoğan is gone.
Maybe that will be sooner than we thought. Çok güzel!
Starbeach
(351 posts)A very good day!!!!
mikewv
(280 posts)Trumpy is not happy! lol
B.See
(8,568 posts)"couching" up.
DoBW
(3,257 posts)FO Orban
Crowman2009
(3,554 posts)ColoringFool
(775 posts)orangecrush
(30,573 posts)canetoad
(20,782 posts)Still haven't searched for the results, but this will do fine thanks. Another bastard fascist bites the dust.
On edit: not only a win but a LANDSLIDE.
malaise
(296,648 posts)They are singing a love song in their thousands as I type
Blue Owl
(59,229 posts)
BeneteauBum
(566 posts)Peace ☮️
BHDem53
(1,144 posts)malaise
(296,648 posts)On BBC
Sneederbunk
(17,553 posts)campaign for the Big O?
Callie1979
(1,360 posts)oldmanlynn
(824 posts)And to also tie in Maga as being on a short leaf here in America
Warpy
(114,630 posts)the pro Russia policies, he might find himself between a rock and a hard place since Hungary is still dependent on Russian energy.
It seems pretty clear from Orban's bowing out without a fight that a dirty deal was done, at least allowing Orban to take his stolen loot with him wherever he ends up.
Nice to know that MAGA endorsements are working as well overrseas as they are here. Wat to go, JD!
RetiredParatrooper
(179 posts)Frederick Douglass:
"Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . .
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters.
The struggle may be a moral one or it may be a physical one, or it may both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted in the North, and held and flogged at in the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages, and make no resistance, either moral or physical.
Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppression and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others."
Martin68
(27,841 posts)lonely bird
(2,966 posts)Then, and only then, will I celebrate.
Conservatives deserve no benefit of the doubt or breaks or anything else.
malaise
(296,648 posts)Let them try
Has Slobby weighed in yet? Or Shady?😀
lonely bird
(2,966 posts)No. I know that they are and it is wonderful that they are doing so.
My position still stands. When the transfer is complete then I will celebrate.
I will also remain watchful. Guys like Orban dont just walk away and the organizations created for and by him and by those who fund him dont go away either.
hatrack
(64,959 posts)So you have no idea just how refreshing this is - slainte!
Also, fuck JD Vance and his bestie/traveling companion, the new Executive Branch pimp.
iluvtennis
(21,506 posts)Swede
(39,639 posts)peggysue2
(12,542 posts)The shackles have been broken, finally.
Now the real work begins to repair the Hungarian government, expel the Orban sycophants threaded throughout all institutions and return to a truly democratic form of governance. Sixteen years of rotten leadership has no doubt left a lot of damage. Not unlike what Trump and his Flying Monkey Brigade have attempted to put on speed dial in the US.
But the first step in Hungary has been accomplished. Kudos!
OldBaldy1701E
(11,247 posts)I am reading that Hillbilly Wannabe's visit cost him between 3 and 5 percent of the vote.


What a Maroon!
liberalla
(11,140 posts)samsingh
(18,435 posts)yellow dahlia
(6,099 posts)They had a mandate, and it made it too difficult for Orban to cheat or steal.
And voter turnout was huge!
malaise
(296,648 posts)The lesson for November
yellow dahlia
(6,099 posts)Now we just need to do everything we can to make sure they don't rig, cheat, or steal.
NNadir
(38,169 posts)Ellipsis
(9,464 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 12, 2026, 08:24 PM - Edit history (1)
malaise
(296,648 posts)😀
Ellipsis
(9,464 posts)Crunchy Frog
(28,285 posts)TomSlick
(13,041 posts)Is Hungary a better democracy than the US?
thought crime
(1,630 posts)This kind of vote result is pretty hard to argue with. At the rate Trump is going, we might be able to get a similar result in 2028 (if there's anything left by that time).
TomSlick
(13,041 posts)Passages
(4,225 posts)SheltieLover
(80,992 posts)malaise
(296,648 posts)SheltieLover
(80,992 posts)SheltieLover
(80,992 posts)Tonight, truth prevailed over lies. Today, we won because Hungarians didnt ask what their homeland could do for them they asked what they could do for their homeland"
Ty for sharing!!!
GreenWave
(12,685 posts)malaise
(296,648 posts)other MAGAts..
I guess Fucker wont be broadcSt8ng from Budapest anytime soon😀
Morbius
(1,023 posts)I do not trust fascists to simply let go of power. It is not in their nature.
mvd
(65,934 posts)Theyre lucky - we could be stuck with our dictator wanna-be for almost 3 more years.
MerryBlooms
(12,302 posts)Good luck, Hungary!!
SamuelAdams
(72 posts)I wonder if Orban will still be invited to CPAC.
Dave Bowman
(7,270 posts)malthaussen
(18,584 posts)A tyrant who can rig elections at will and embodies the rabid RW that has been infecting the (sort-of) Social Democratic States still couldn't manage to fix his own election? I'm impressed.
-- Mal