Languages I can speak: Hungarian, Lisp, Broken Engrish

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  • That was Orban’s plan: they deliberately didn’t look for alternatives to Russian oil, and you can’t switch the source of a full country in a blink. Building new pipes require time. There is a pipe from Croatia that could be used, but it only works for the other direction, it also takes time to make it usable for import. So it’s not really Magyar’s fault, you can’t undo 16 years of shenanigans in a moment. He is not even the PM yet, the new government will only form in a month. He only had one press conference. Or I don’t know what is the point of this article…

    This is the only thing Magyar said about the topic, all others are speculations from the author:

    At his first postelection press conference, Euronews reported, he said Hungary would continue seeking cheap energy from Russia. “No one can change geography, Russia and Hungary are here to stay,” Magyar said.





  • The voting system prefers big parties, and with bullshit like “winner compensation” the winner of popular vote has a huge chance for supermajority automatically. On one of the previous elections Fidesz got supermajority with only 45% of popular vote. It’s hard to get a simple majority in this system, if you win you win big.

    Before this election the opposition was a lot of small parties, and the system worked for Orbán. Now there are only 2 parties, (and the actual nazis) the winner takes it all, and 4 years of economic stagnation angered a lot of people.

    The new parlament will have 3 parties according to polls, centre right Tisza around 60%, Fidesz (populist right) 30%, Our Homelend (far right) 5%. Sounds like fun