The fall of Viktor Orbán’s government in Hungary raises a question the celebrations have obscured: why did dismantling such a corrupt and inhuman system take sixteen years? The answer lies less in ideology than in the architecture of economic dependency the regime deliberately built. Drawing on the investigative documentary The Price of the Vote and […]
Watching Moscow dance this dance yet again has an udeniable element of skadefryd* to it. However, the loss of influence the malevolent regime in Moscow has suffered is also the source of a joy far beyond any indivdual feeling. It is the joy of harm averted and of hope renewed.
Yes, gloat as much as you like, but if you can give yourself leave to rejoice.
* Danish, same meaning as the German "Schadenfreude".
Tisza made it and they even got a 2/3 majority (which is needed to clean up some of the problem legislation which Orbán created). Orbán is defeated.
Actually, I was expecting that MH would drop below the 5% threshold but they managed to get 5.8%.
So the new Hungarian president/PM is named Péter Hungary? Péter the Hungarian? Hungarian Pèter?
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Congratulations Budapest!
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Just one more example of where Trump trying to influence a nation's election by favouring a right-wing thug (and fascist) has been ineffectual. #Hungary2026
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