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Bwaaaaah hahaha
Magyar says Orban called to congratulate him😀
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
(296,608 posts)Damn😀
malaise
(296,608 posts)😀
Easterncedar
(6,345 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
(6,345 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
(296,608 posts)😀
Easterncedar
(6,345 posts)Thanks, y'all!
moonscape
(5,762 posts)T more determined if thats possible.
LetMyPeopleVote
(180,351 posts)malaise
(296,608 posts)Holy shit😀
B.See
(8,561 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
(8,266 posts)The trip to Hungary, or the trip to Pakistan?
Oh, wait...BOTH failed!!! So much for Shady Vance's political future.
AloeVera
(4,300 posts)Really helps with fixing the country. Including the constitutional changes required to fix Orban's mess.
Deuxcents
(27,113 posts)Solly Mack
(97,008 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(180,351 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
(296,608 posts)Putin
liberalla
(11,135 posts)Bravo, Hungary!!!
nt
True Dough
(26,851 posts)Suck it, Pooty!

Doodley
(11,955 posts)dweller
(28,479 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,083 posts)was not the flex they thought it was.
Takket
(23,730 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
(296,608 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
(90,210 posts)I guess some folks just need to realize that, and accept it.
malaise
(296,608 posts)Vote as if your life depend on it for it does
moondust
(21,299 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
(54,086 posts)malaise
(296,608 posts)😀
spooky3
(38,691 posts)F off, loser!
GoCubsGo
(34,939 posts)that Orban would successfully rig the election in his favor. If he tried, he has failed.
LetMyPeopleVote
(180,351 posts)malaise
(296,608 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.
róisín_dubh
(12,349 posts)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 cant because that fucker is gone.
ColoringFool
(767 posts)dalton99a
(94,471 posts)

Vogon_Glory
(10,306 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
(4,790 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
(23,626 posts)n/t
LSparkle
(12,206 posts)Starbeach
(350 posts)A very good day!!!!
mikewv
(279 posts)Trumpy is not happy! lol
B.See
(8,561 posts)"couching" up.
DoBW
(3,257 posts)FO Orban
Crowman2009
(3,553 posts)ColoringFool
(767 posts)orangecrush
(30,565 posts)canetoad
(20,781 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
(296,608 posts)They are singing a love song in their thousands as I type
Blue Owl
(59,215 posts)
BeneteauBum
(565 posts)Peace ☮️
BHDem53
(1,143 posts)malaise
(296,608 posts)On BBC
Sneederbunk
(17,551 posts)campaign for the Big O?
Callie1979
(1,358 posts)oldmanlynn
(824 posts)And to also tie in Maga as being on a short leaf here in America
Warpy
(114,629 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
(27,831 posts)lonely bird
(2,965 posts)Then, and only then, will I celebrate.
Conservatives deserve no benefit of the doubt or breaks or anything else.
malaise
(296,608 posts)Let them try
Has Slobby weighed in yet? Or Shady?😀
hatrack
(64,953 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
(39,631 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
(11,242 posts)I am reading that Hillbilly Wannabe's visit cost him between 3 and 5 percent of the vote.


What a Maroon!
samsingh
(18,435 posts)yellow dahlia
(6,094 posts)They had a mandate, and it made it too difficult for Orban to cheat or steal.
And voter turnout was huge!
malaise
(296,608 posts)The lesson for November
yellow dahlia
(6,094 posts)Now we just need to do everything we can to make sure they don't rig, cheat, or steal.
NNadir
(38,162 posts)Ellipsis
(9,463 posts)malaise
(296,608 posts)😀
Crunchy Frog
(28,284 posts)TomSlick
(13,030 posts)Is Hungary a better democracy than the US?