TechAltar13h ago

Fidesz' massive defeat comes despite:
- multiple active Russian disinformation campaigns
- the US government actively supporting Fidesz
- Fidesz owning the majority of TV & radio stations + newspapers
- Fidesz having gerrymandered the crap out of the country
- many documented cases of voter suppression & paying disinfrenchised voters for support
- Fidesz pouring unprecedented $$$ into their campaign

Feeling a little proud of my country for the first time in a while 🇭🇺

Show threadClemens12h ago
@Techaltar Do you have a theory on what's going on with the mail votes going 90%/8% for FIDESZ/TISZA on https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026/orszagos-listak?tab=partlistak&filter=orszagos-eredmenyek? That feels suspect given the rest of the results so far.
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Show threadÁron12h ago
@neverpanic @Techaltar It's not, mail votes are only from ethnic Hungarians in neighboring countries
Show threadInc Hulk 🧪11h ago
@aronkvh @neverpanic @Techaltar True! Ethnic Hungarians are allowed postal votes, but the massive numbers of expats across the EU were denied postal votes (they tend to be anti-Orban, escaping the oppressive regime).
Show threadJon11h ago
@IncHulk @aronkvh @neverpanic @Techaltar what fraction of Hungarian expats are not Ethnic Hungarians? I had not realized there was a lot of internal diversity there.
Show threadInc Hulk 🧪11h ago
@oddhack @aronkvh @neverpanic @Techaltar The term ethnic Hungarians usually refers to the Hungarian population who were in the 2/3 of the area of Hungary given to other countries at the end of WW1 by the treaty made mainly by the French & British victors. In those areas, schools & churches all spoke Hungarian for many decades after the division. Orban gave votes to all these ethnic Hungarians (who had never lived in the current land of Hungary).
Show threadJon10h ago
@IncHulk @aronkvh @neverpanic @Techaltar also just so I'm clear - Hungary granted postal voting rights to Ethnic Hungarians who have never lived there, but does not grant them to Hungarian citizens living abroad? Or did I misread your post?
Show threadInc Hulk 🧪
@oddhack @aronkvh @neverpanic @Techaltar Citizens abroad can return to Hungary, or vote at an Embassy. Just not by postal vote.
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