Viktor Orbán has conceded in a speech to supporters, telling them: “The result of the election is clear and painful.”

I assume by “painful” he means “delightful”.

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    17 hours ago

    I just hope Magyar isnt a shadow puppet. Or a massive ball that gets dropped and deflated like Starmer.

    A great day for Hungary and Europe. Fingers crossed now for the coming months.

    Is it possible Belarus could also follow suit?

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      Belarus isn’t forced to have a functional democracy like Hungary is through EU. Which is one of the great benefits of the EU. He wouldn’t have anything to say, neither recieve any of the benefits from the EU, while Hungary was under investigation of corrupt democracy and also, could potentially be thrown out.

      Since Belarus is a puppet state of Russia, and not a part of the union. Nothing, holds back the belarussian government to not just fake the democratic process, just like Putler does in his own shit country.

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      17 hours ago

      Is it possible Belarus could also follow suit?

      Belarus hasn’t had a technically democratic regime for 16 years, but a straight up dictator for 32 (there’s never been an election in the country he didn’t “win”). And it’s in an economic and defense union with Russia (integrated even closer than EU countries are with each other). That’s a whole different league.

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        17 hours ago

        Shame. So revolution or nothing basically? Or perhaps when the leader (I forget his name…Lukchencko?) dies?

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          Usually when a long-time dictator dies he picked a successor. They are not always succesful at continuing the dictatorship but i don’t expect the country to suddenly return to democracy when Lukashenko dies. Would be really really nice though.