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News & Current Events Apr 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM

Hungary prepares to vote as Orban's future hangs in balance

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Hungary prepares to vote as Orban's future hangs in balance
www.thestandard.com.hk
Hungary prepares to vote as Orban's future hangs in balance
EU member Hungary will hold a closely watched general election on Sunday, the first since nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban's return to power in 2010 where he is not considered the clear favourite.

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Evig_Vandrar777 4 days ago +40
Russia is gonna claim that the people are nazis who staged a coup if Orban loses or is removed from power. The Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine in 2014 (where the corrupt Russian puppet was removed) really pissed them off. F*** Orban.
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VlaaiIsSuperieur 4 days ago +13
Main luck will be that its significantly harder for Russia to invade Hungary and land troops necessary there to make this believeable. Not that they have those troops anyway. I am more interested what the EU will do if there is indeed an Orban coup. I don't expect more than thoughts and prayers for the people who will get mowed down in gun fire.
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Longjumping_Whole240 4 days ago +5
And if Orban wins, they will say they "respect the will of Hungarian people".
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Wurschd 4 days ago +53
More importantly Hungary's future hangs in the balance, I think this is the last chance.
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Zixinus 4 days ago +29
Those of us that support dethroning Orbán are very afraid that Orbán will throw in enough dirty tricks to sabotage the process. We already seen a lot of irregularities. Over-the-border voters receiving the votes of their dead relatives. Certain people sorted to be minorities to take away one of their votes. Right now, Orbán is playing a circus where they uncovered a bomb plot (with a backpack full of explosives that somehow never went off) on one of the big LNG pipelines we share with Serbia and heavily imply that it was Ukraine. Ukraine who right now is on the cutting edge of drone and self-directed bomb deliveries somehow decided to rely on a backpack full of explosives. The people supporting Orbán are in a propaganda bubble paid for by our taxes. Just like how MAGA voters in the US are in Trump's cult.
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Wurschd 4 days ago +10
It still amazes me that these heroes of the people always have to cheat to stay in power. They never try to do that by implementing transparency and good policies.
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exnihilodub 4 days ago +5
All of the points you made sound awfully familiar to me. Turkish citizen here.
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CheKGB 4 days ago +6
If hungary keep Orban, I expect their ostracisation in Europe to be absolute and last decades. How I vote in future European elections will depend on the candidate's condemnation of that country.
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bunker931 4 days ago +8
More explosive near the pipeline. Now!
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popeter45 4 days ago +8
im fully expecting him to last minute suspect the vote or go full power grab and cancel it only after the vote is done and its clear he's lost
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3rdhouseonleft 4 days ago +11
are we even go that far? i mean i expect him to pull a putin and just say he won by a large margin etc. i dont think orban plans on leaving power similar tot he orange turd.
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_HIST 4 days ago +3
Hungary doesn't have quite the leeway to steal elections under the EU watch
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Flatus_Diabolic 4 days ago +1
Yup. And then use “peacekeepers” from Wagner to quell the protests.
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Zixinus 4 days ago +2
Orbán has already arranged that, I am sure. Ukraine gets money from delivering LNG through it. That's why it is still willing to sell its enemy's oil and gas. Ukraine has begged Hungary and Serbia to buy oil and gas from elsewhere and offered alternatives. No, only gas and oil from Russia will do for some reason.
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ExoticSterby42 4 days ago +3
His future does not “hang in balance”, it is unhinged and in tatters and the horrifying aspect is it is still uncertain if he will actually lose the election, it is so rigged.
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xX609s-hartXx 4 days ago +3
Let's just hope he doesn't blow up an entire apartment building for a more convincing false flag attack.
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_stumblebum_ 4 days ago -7
aint no way this dude is getting voted out. we’re right on track to have fascist dictatorships in every country by 2050.
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