Hungary Elections : Orban wins! Supermajority victory for the anti-EU movement

[Y_Participant 4591]

Hungary Elections : Orban wins! Supermajority victory for the anti-EU movement

Hungary – one of the mainstays of the Visigrad Four – has re-elected its glorious anti-EU leader Viktor Orban by a wide margin.

Viktor Orban’s landslide win in Hungary’s parliamentary elections on Sunday has handed him a fresh mandate and four more years to torment Brussels with his anti-immigration policies and Euroskeptic rhetoric.

Orban’s victory is a huge win for anti-EU parties across Europe and a humiliation and headache for Brussels. The Hungarian leader has been a thorn in Brussels’ side in recent years, with his staunchly anti-migration stance perhaps the biggest bone of contention.

In his final speech before Hungarians went to the polls, Orban once again took aim at Europe’s controversial migration policies. “Immigration is the blight that slowly but surely devours our homeland,” he said. “Mass migration threatens the everyday security to which we are accustomed. With mass migration comes a greater threat of terror.”

With near-record voter turnout, Orban’s Fidesz has won 133 parliamentary seats of 199, giving him the ‘supermajority’ needed to make constitutional changes.

While the United Kingdom has caused a headache for Brussels by voting to leave the EU, Hungary has caused somewhat of a headache by staying and upsetting the Western liberal apple cart.

One liberal Hungarian friend who contacted me as the results came in was sorely disappointed. No one was expecting Orban to lose, but nor were they expecting his win to be so resounding. In fact, in the months leading up the elections, there was an air of cautious optimism from the opposition parties.

There had been some heated debate over how leftists should approach the spring election. Some strongly advocated joining with the far-right Jobbik party in an effort to prevent Orban from further consolidating his power. Other liberals were vehemently opposed to such an alliance, a deal with the devil, so to speak – but at the end of the day, it didn’t matter.

The Hungarian left is made up of a number of small parties – the Green LMP (‘Politics Can Be Different’), the socialist MSZP, the Democratic Coalition (DK) – and some tiny parties like Egyutt (‘Together’) and Momentum.

A typical complaint among Hungarian liberals is that these parties suffer from a serious case of disorganization and an inability to work together to achieve common aims.

The satirical ‘Two-Tailed Dog’ party, which ran on promises of free beer and eternal life, won three times as many votes as Egyutt – a result which should surely convince them of the importance unity on the left if they ever want to put a dent in Fidesz’s power.

Hungarian elections are generally regarded as being carried out fairly and legitimately. There is no suggestion that this vote was tampered with or fixed in any way.

Following the 2014 parliamentary elections, OSCE monitors concluded that Hungarians were offered a “genuine choice” and that elections were carried out “transparently and efficiently.” That, however, does not mean the election system is entirely fair, either.

Former US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder added his voice to the Western chorus of anger over Orban’s win, tweeting that European leaders who care about liberalism should impose “real costs” on Hungary.

This puts a rather interesting spin on liberalism and democracy. Is Daalder suggesting Hungarians who cast their votes for the candidates of their choice be punished in some way for doing so? Are election results in the EU only legitimate when the outcome suits Brussels?

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[1] https://www.rt.com/op-ed/423629-hungary-orban-election-anti-eu/

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

Ivo Daalder is obviously a c~~~. His wife and mother will probably never be gang-raped in front of him by migrants, but one can always hope.

F~~~ing globalists are already imposing “real costs” on the Western peoples.

I’d like to see that order reversed to read “Western peoples” imposing “real costs” on globalists. And by “Real costs” I mean someone kneeling on their chests driving both thumbs into their eye sockets.

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear. And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable. Women have rights; men have responsibilities; MGTOW have freedom. Marriage is for chumps. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart-R'as al Ghul.

[RomulusParticipant 4667]

Also, the “far-right”…….as the press likes to describe them……..the far right Jobbik party…….took second with somewhere between 15-19 percent of the vote. A resounding defeat for the EU masters.

The people of Hungary have spoken. They will not voluntarily assist in the suicide of their nation and its culture.

Cheers to Hungary.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

This is a lesson for the Germans. Your country doesn’t have to commit suicide just because Brussels ordains it. I will be interested seeing what the Poles do. I hope they fallow suit.

[743 roadmasterParticipant]

Have only read little bits on this,……Good news all around. Now if Austria gets the rest of its ducks in a row might be able break the EU.

mgtow is its own worst enemy- https://www.campusreform.org/

[HitmanParticipant]

I remain optimistic for the future of Europe and it’s people.
The political pendulum is swinging right,and will continue to do so.
F~~~ the E.U. !!!

[Y_Participant 4591]

743 roadmaster wrote:

Have only read little bits on this,……Good news all around. Now if Austria gets the rest of its ducks in a row might be able break the EU.

Good point 743R. It’s interesting you brought up Austria. The right leaning parties want to join the Visegrad 4. This is not a realistic prospect at the moment – but they never can be sure what can happen if their society is threatened with survival.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/10/27/could-austria-join-the-visegrad-group/

The leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Heinz-Christian Strache, has previously proposed that Austria could join the Visegrád Group of nations, which currently consists of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. With the FPÖ likely to become a junior member of the next Austrian government in coalition with the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), is this now a realistic prospect?

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