Today's the day, although turnout appears to be slightly down on last time. The official website is here, though with gerrymandering, the opposition reportedly need as much as 54% for a seat majority.
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There was a story earlier this week where they'd found a mass of postal ballots in a landfill across the road from the cemetery where my in-laws are. All, obviously, for the opposition. This didn't really surprise me though it did give me a glimmer of hope that FIDESZ think they probably need to commit fraud to winComment
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My daughter has been denied the vote by virtue of moving a few weeks ago and her new address not getting registered in time. Even though it's in her interests for FIDESZ to win*, I am proud that she's working to support the opposition
(*one of Orbán s electoral bribes has been to promise young people that they don't have to pay tax until they're 24)Comment
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The new edition of the This American Life podcast has a long and deeply depressing piece about the Hungarian electionComment
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I had not previously realized the link was this obvious
Both have been fueled by Hungary’s profits from Russian crude. Gorged with cash thanks to cheap supplies of Russian oil and gas, the Hungarian energy conglomerate MOL — one of the Central European nation’s biggest and most profitable companies — last month announced it would pay dividends of $652 million to its shareholders.
More than $65 million of that will go to a privately managed education foundation that last year hosted the Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a festival of right-wing pundits in Hungary. It has also provided stipends and fellowships to conservative Americans and Europeans looking for a safe haven from what they bemoan as the spread of “cancel culture” back home.Comment
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This could go in a number of threads but for maximum effect I'll stick it here. What a pisstake:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61653086Comment
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A promising Hungarian chess player with world championship ambitions plans to change affiliation to Romania.Comment
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I love how lads living on a plain between eastern europe and western Europe, and a former part of the austro-hungarian empire can carry on like they were a bunch of isolated island dwellers like the inbreds of pitcairn island.Comment
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Realising that your audience is completely untethered from reality and actively prefers fantasy can really get the creative juices flowing.Comment
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Hungary is no longer a demcoracy https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2...e-in-new-repor
(I think electoral autocracy is a good description actually)Comment
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I think this is overstating it slightly but still
https://twitter.com/stefanobottoni1/status/1575366101344600065
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The Hungarian government is doubling down on it's ludicrous pro-Putin, pro-fascist-Occupation shit
https://twitter.com/viktoriaserdult/status/1583033145292906498
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Another huge demo today (on October 23rd - very meaningful date in Hungary)
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Nothing to do with Orban, but Hungary (and Hungarian Romania) lost one of its most respected left-wing intellectuals this weekend - interview from 10 years ago here https://lefteast.org/words-from-budapest-2/
(amazing to read that his Jewish mother escaped being taken to Auschwitz because she was in jail as a communist)Comment
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Orbán's spokesman in Brussels is former Revolutionary Communist Party boss turned fash Frank Furedi
https://twitter.com/evansmithhist/status/1636305409618378752?s=20
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I would be interested in ad hox's sense of how the Pope's visit has gone over locally.
He seemed to be trying very hard to walk a tightrope.Comment
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the poles can still teach orbán a thing or two
https://twitter.com/jh_swanson/status/1656395923008700416?s=20
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Beyond appallingComment
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