Hungary's General Election...

[SPLINE]

...is being held today. Current Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a Trump-like figure: deeply patriotic and against any foreign meddling in his own country. He is firmly anti-immigration, particularly from muslim countries, as he has seen what this has done to the rest of Europe. He has policies and tax breaks to encourage Hungarian woman to have more children. Contrast this with Britain, where we have for decades told women to be independent and to eschew the chains of marriage and family life, whilst at the same time bringing in muslims and rewarding them highly for producing large families. Like Trump, Orban is hated by the EU and the cartel media, and therefore you will struggle to find anything good written about him anywhere in the mass media.

All decent and civilised people should be rooting for Orban's victory today.

 

[IT Minion]

Vance was over there promoting Orbam and Trump offered to support Hungary financially if Orban won

His poll numbers immediately dropped by 3%.

 

[Highway Man]

...is being held today. Current Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a Trump-like figure: deeply patriotic and against any foreign meddling in his own country. He is firmly anti-immigration, particularly from muslim countries, as he has seen what this has done to the rest of Europe. He has policies and tax breaks to encourage Hungarian woman to have more children. Contrast this with Britain, where we have for decades told women to be independent and to eschew the chains of marriage and family life, whilst at the same time bringing in muslims and rewarding them highly for producing large families. Like Trump, Orban is hated by the EU and the cartel media, and therefore you will struggle to find anything good written about him anywhere in the mass media.

All decent and civilised people should be rooting for Orban's victory today.

Pretty sure he will win, I like him.

 

[JohnD]

"against any foreign meddling in his own country...."

Except by Putin and Trump, of course.

 

[King Billy]

...is being held today. Current Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a Trump-like figure: deeply patriotic and against any foreign meddling in his own country. He is firmly anti-immigration, particularly from muslim countries, as he has seen what this has done to the rest of Europe. He has policies and tax breaks to encourage Hungarian woman to have more children. Contrast this with Britain, where we have for decades told women to be independent and to eschew the chains of marriage and family life, whilst at the same time bringing in muslims and rewarding them highly for producing large families. Like Trump, Orban is hated by the EU and the cartel media, and therefore you will struggle to find anything good written about him anywhere in the mass media.

All decent and civilised people should be rooting for Orban's victory today.

Wait until he claims the election was stolen, and he steals it back.

 

[JohnD]

List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war - Wikipedia

Interestingly, Putin's buddy Orban has made sure Hungary is not on that list.

If there was a list of countries that have stolen EU aid in cash and gold that was in transit to Ukraine, and beaten up the crews of the security vans, the only country on that list would be Hungary.

 

[Highway Man]

You'd have liked Hitler as well.

Reported

 

[Old Salt]

He also happens to be close to Putin, playing both sides? The other guy seems to be closer to the EU.

 

[Vinty]

Contrast this with Britain, where we have for decades told women to be independent

Over 10 million abortions in the UK since the legalisation of the practice, majority of whom were white , now you are complaining there aren't enough indigenous Brits.
If you want women to have more kids, then, there is going to have to be a massive redistribution of wealth from top to the bottom because having one kid is expensive enough, provide well paid jobs so that married couples can actually afford to have larger families.

 

[JohnD]

Good to see Spline and Highwayman's nonsense consigned to the bin.

"Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win
Péter Magyar’s Tisza party was projected to win 136 out of 199 seats, giving it a two-thirds majority


Marton Dunai in Budapest

Published 6 MINUTES AGO

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was heading for a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections on Sunday night after official projections based on interim results put the opposition Tisza party on course for a clear majority in parliament.

With just over half of the votes counted, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party was projected to win 136 out of 199 seats in parliament, a two-thirds majority that would enable it to change the constitution."

FT.com

 

[JohnD]

Good to see Putin and Trump peeved.



"In a clear sign of the shifting world order, both Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump have backed incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the express detriment of the EU and Ukraine.

Hungarians are living under Orbánomics, the self-styled “illiberal” model put in place by the country’s long-serving premier. Its main effect has been to centralise economic power and decision-making while undermining independent institutions.

The model has been a disaster for Hungary. It has made the country far poorer than it would be otherwise, with prices having risen higher than in peer nations as corruption proliferates and public services deteriorate. (Meanwhile, the government-aligned elite has done quite well, as my colleagues have diligently documented, while Orbán’s Hungary has become a byword for democratic backsliding, as chief economics commentator Martin Wolf laid bare.)"

FT.com

 

[JohnD]

"Under Orbánomics, international and “opposition” firms are disfavoured while markets and public tendering have been made far less free and fair. As with other populist governments, independent institutions — the media, central bank, judiciary and universities — have been undermined and co-opted.

The early period of Orbán’s second stint in office beginning in 2010 saw a period of stable economic growth akin to a sugar rush before an inevitable crash. Cheap Russian energy, inflows of foreign capital and EU disbursement funds soon dried up and “sharply exposed pre-existing structural weaknesses”, according to the Centre for Eastern Studies.

Hungary’s economy has remained orientated around low value-added activities — chiefly, assembling German cars — and the nation has made little effort to move up the value chain. Hungarian productivity growth is chronically low and rates of investment in education and research and development are far below the EU average.

The oligarchic restructuring of the economy has, of course, not helped, further weakening competitive forces and compounding under-investment. The result has been stagnant GDP growth."

 

[JohnD]

"In line with the populist playbook, the government has steadily reduced the independence of the country’s central bank, leading to persistently higher inflation in the run-up to the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Annual inflation rates peaked above 25 per cent.

Moreover, policies aimed at boosting fertility — a centrepiece in Orban’s nationalist agenda, which includes tax breaks and interest-free loans and is estimated to cost around 5 per cent of GDP — have so far failed. While the fertility rate initially recovered from its 2011 nadir to about 1.6 average births per woman, it plunged back down to 1.3 in 2025. This is well below replacement rate and neighbouring countries that did not implement such expensive measures, for example Bulgaria and Slovakia."

 

[JohnD]

Vance was over there promoting Orbam and Trump offered to support Hungary financially if Orban won

His poll numbers immediately dropped by 3%.

Thank you, Vance.

 

[noseall]

...is being held today. Current Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a Trump-like figure:

I see toxic Trump put the kiss of death on another one of his flock.