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Viktor Orban will be freelancing for the NYT Opinion page
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Fidesz, Viktor Orbán’s once-dominant party, is collapsing into the Hungarian abyss, swept away by the meteoric rise of Péter Magyar. Trump’s blessing strikes again—a toxic curse that’s turning an iron-fisted regime to dust. #Hungary
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The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.
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An underappreciated dynamic of recent Hungarian politics is how several ex-intel officials and generals joined Magyar's team early on. Most professionally minded police, intel and army officers in Hungary just wanted to rejoin the big kids table in NATO and the EU
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1. Viktor Orbán was a key ideological ally of the Trump regime, which adopted his apocalyptic views of immigration. Orbán endorsed the racist “great replacement” theory, claiming European civilization would be erased by 2050. It’s nonsense. But Trump’s national security strategy echoes this claim:
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Me walking out of a movie finding out that Viktor Orbán got his ass voted out:
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Georgia’s Opposition Alliance congratulates Hungary! 🇬🇪🇭🇺🇪🇺

“We congratulate the Hungarian people on the victory of the Tisza Party, led by Péter Magyar, in the parliamentary elections. This result represents a clear and decisive choice by the Hungarian people in favor of democracy.

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Magyar has called on the national president to resign so that the new parliament can elected a new president. (Orban amended the law on the presidency in December to make it impossible for the parliament to impeach the president.) If Sulyok stays, he can act as roadblock for the new govt.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary has accepted defeat in his country’s election after 16 years in power, with the opposition on course for a landslide win

Péter Magyar is set to be the country's new PM

Hungary will turn away now from Russia’s President Putin & boost relations with rest of EU
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🇭🇺🇪🇺 Péter Magyar: Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again.

Crowd chants: "Russians go home!"
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🇪🇺🇭🇺People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”
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Péter Magyar is a Kojima-ass fucking name for the Prime Minister of Hungary.

this is like losing to a guy named Johnny ‘Merican.
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Hungary's Viktor Orban, a lodestar for MAGA culture warriors and right-wing populists in Europe, concedes defeat in a general election, breaking the momentum of a global nationalist revival promoted by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world/europe/hungary-election-orban-magyar.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Magyar is asking Hungary's president, a puppet of Orban, to resign once he gives Magyar the mandate to form a Govt

Moving quickly
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Viktor Orbán has conceded to Peter Magyar! WOOOOT!

"With 66 percent of votes counted, Mr. Magyar’s opposition party was on course to win 137 seats — more than a two-thirds majority. Mr. Orban’s party, Fidesz, was expected to win just 55."

WE CAN KICK AUTHORITARIAN ASS HERE, TOO!
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From @kimlanelaw.bsky.social

“lots of lessons here for the US - in particular that Magyar went to Orban strongholds for years and persuaded Orban supporters in person that their lives could be better. He knew he had the cities -- and he needed the villages to win this sort of victory.
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The EU is sitting on €6.4 *billion* in grants for Hungary

With a likely constitutional majority enabling Magyar to govern with a freehand, I suspect that money will flow quickly

Ukraine's €90bn loan will also be approved

Hungary will now move into the European mainstream
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Viktor Orban LOSING is a harbinger of what is to come for America's deranged authoritarian pedophile and the entire fascist Republican Party. 🙌💪👏✊️👇
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People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”
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🇭🇺 Magyar: Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again.

Crowd chants: "Russians go home!"
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🇭🇺🇪🇺 Magyar: Hungary will again be a strong ally in the European Union and NATO.

We will renew and put on a strong foundation—and if possible, expand—the cooperation of the Visegrád Four.
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Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
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Péter Magyar victory speech:

"Hungary wants to be a European country again. We want to return to Europe."

The crowd immediately chants "Russians, go home" in response.
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Magyar, closing his speach, now calling for accountability for those who turned on Hungarians. Refusing to be a country w/o consequences.
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Magyar calls on the figurehead head of state Tamás Sulyok, as well as all high justice officials and other high officials appointed by Fidesz to resign immediately or they will be removed by the new government.

He also announces a constitutional reform and that Hungary is joining EPPO.
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🇭🇺🇪🇺 Péter Magyar: Hungary will again be a strong ally in the European Union and NATO.
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BIG - Péter Magyar:

Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again.

Crowd chants: "Russians go home!"
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BREAKING🚨 Viktor Orbán just LOST Hungary. After 16 years. The man who banned Pride, labeled gay people pedophiles, and let JD Vance fly in to save him — just lost.

This is HUGE! 😎🌈✨
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Péter Magyar victory speech:

"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."

He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
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So, incredibly happy for, and proud of, Hungary. And looks like PM might even manage 2/3rds needed for a deep constitutional undoing of Orban's feckery.

If EU has *any* sense whatsoever, it will THROW MONEY at Magyar, like a drunk yuppie at a stripper.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt
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