Orban challenger Magyar’s party takes double-digit poll lead. Support for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling party is eroding further

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/politics/2024/11/28/orban-challenger-magyars-party-takes-double-digit-poll-lead/

by EUstrongerthanUS

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  3. Let’s temove Putin’s puppets out of the EU one by one.

  4. Hungary getting rid of Orban? Man, I’ve been praying for this.

    Also, is there someone from Hungary that can tell me what Magyar stands for? Like what are the policies he stands for or against?

  5. The time for Orban to declare an emergency and rule by emergency meassures has come.

  6. Orban is going to assassinate him.

    Upd: here people so confident in denying this risk, like we haven’t ever heard about political assasination ordered by the Orban’s buddy Fico.

  7. That would be great. But we have to wait, we all know dictators dont play after the rules

  8. This is hopeful. It’s still a year to the elections, right? So a lot can change still.

  11. It’s really impressive how Orban manages to lose despite having almost total media domination to the point where his “illiberal democracy” is a pretty accurate term

  13. I caution everyone against being too optimistic just yet.

    His party mostly exists on paper still at this point – they have like 20 members. They have, at best, a year to find 106 candidates for the elections (and some more for the party list, too), assuming that the Orbán government doesn’t decide to call a snap election before their popularity declines even further.

    Also, Fidesz has absolutely everything in their hands in this country. Their resources dwarfs everyone else put together, they have completely captured all state institutions, and they have a gigantic propaganda machine. It’s been faltering recently, sure, they haven’t managed to find the right angle of attack on Magyar but there’s no guarantee they won’t.

    And above all that, there is the 2/3 majority Orbán’s party has in Parliament. That means they can essentially do whatever they wish. There is no legal obstacle preventing them from changing the constitution, electoral laws, or any other laws however they see fit.

  14. We Hungarians are very much looking forward to a change of government, but there is so much sheep that the propaganda media is still working, like in Russia.

  15. I’m already seeing the usual “why do I trust this guy” comments which honestly boil my blood, so let me put this in a way that can be understood even by r/Europe standards.
    -guy outs his own wife (Minister of Justice) who pardoned pedophiles, gets the full Fidesz-owned media thrown at him, guy doubles-down and starts leaking one scandal after the other
    -guy takes a defunct party and within a span of 12 months made it more popular than Fidesz
    -guy invalidates the bitching of old opposition, namely that campaigning country-wide is pointless because anyone not living in Budapest is just a brainwashed idiot, starts campaigning nationwide and actually gets the results for it (see previous point)
    -guy basically obliterated opposition parties who were collaborating with Fidesz (MSZP, LMP) with one notable exception (DK) who are slowly but surely eroding in popularity
    -guy nominates actual professionals into the EP, not yes-men á la Fidesz who only nominate people based on their loyalty to Orbán
    -guy funds his party on civilian donations, rejects funds from political groups and 1%-ers for the explicit reason to maintain transparency and avoid being “proven” by Fidesz as a yes-man of “Brussels”
    -guy wants to allow the EPPO to investigate the Orbán-dynasty for corruption. This means that Orbán can get his immunity stripped and tried in court by the EU.
    -guy wants to actually implement the reforms recommended by the EU for rule-of-law and get the EU-funds back to the Hungarians from the hands of Orbán and his lackeys
    -guy is actively negotiating with other European leaders like Macron or Scholz instead of throwing media-tantrums like Orbán does

  16. Can somebody from Hungary tell me why people are leaving Orbán? Is it because of a state of economy, quality of life or something else?

  17. Oh no, Magyar’s part to win in Magyarorszag!

    Will Orban retire to Hvar or to Moscow?

  18. Let’s hope they don’t beat him to death like in Georgia 🙏

  19. Magyar gets banned from Reddit, 1 week later takes double-digit poll lead. Coincidence? I don’t think so

  21. Yeah, let’s just wait for the elections. The propaganda machine is going to work on 2000%.

  23. Fantastic news, getting rid of Orban would be a huge deal for central Europe.

  25. I do not trust the polls. I trust the election result unless it comes out as really fishy.

  27. Another great news if Orban get kicked out like Assad. Then both Europe and the middle east will be much without troubles.

  28. If Romania is anything to go by, the Russians won’t go down without a fight. It’s not over until Orban is gone

  29. How long until the next election? Does Orban have enough time for a smear campaign orchestrated by his besties in the Kremlin?

  30. Good. The sooner Hungarians can toss Orban, the better off the Hungary will be.

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