Hungary’s main opposition party has said it would move to amend the constitution to limit prime ministers to two terms if it wins next week’s election—a move that would effectively bar incumbent Viktor Orbán from ever returning to office

And the governing party keeps referring to him as Ukrainian Peter... (It used to be Brussels Peter)

They call me ~~Cuban~~ Hungarian Pete, I'm the king of ~~the rumba beat~~ Orban's defeat

It's common in other languages too. Like the English voice actress Jennifer English.

An American president called "President America" is some shit Hideo Kojima would come up with

In Europe, it’s not that unusual. At least here in Czechia, there are last names like Čech (Czech), Polák (Pole), Maďar (Hungarian), Slovák (Slovak) or Turkek (Turk)

Just another little fun fact: after the fall of Ceaușescu in Romania, a young man named **Petre Roman** became the prime minister. Yeah 'Roman' literally means Romanian...

You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me, and you look at Samoa Joe, and you can see that statement is not true.

its almost like actions in a vacuum arent inherrently good or bad most of the time, its the intent and way they're executed that makes them good or bad! its just too bad most of the world cant deal with that sort of nuance, russias been taking advantage of that naivety for 30 years

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If you’d elected Trump 30 years ago you’d have a greedy 50-year old man that doesn’t give a f*** about anyone else. You can’t tell me that JD Vance would be a better appointment than Bernie Sanders because he’s younger….

> They should be of an age to be experienced with life, but young enough to want to make the place better to live in. 45-60, then. Old enough to know better, but young enough to care. Make it an age bracket limit and you can do away with term limits.

What a sweeping statement. please print it out and read it on each birthday. You might want to notice that the Trumpers come in all ages, as do Democrats. Some of us have children and grandchildren, but you are saying we can’t possibly know anything about the world we all live in. Some of us have been progressive for decades, but because of our age, you are certain that we are the problem, not the people who support and vote for Trump. Get out there and march, vote, work for candidates and do whatever you can to elect better people. Sometimes you lose, but you always lose if you insult/exclude people because they are too old, too young, the wrong color, or belong to any other “wrong” demographic. I hope to see more young people in the fight against fascism; we need everyone!

I think there's a solid chance Bernie would support it. You'd get rid of a lot more Schumer's then Bernies and gain a lot more AOCs and other people with lives ahead of them that would be more forward thinking. Either way, 8 years as President is a long time for someone who's in their 70s let alone 80s. I think a 65 age limit to run is good common sense.

me when I think literal dying geriatrics with principles formed pre WWII should lead a modern society

Ageism is a silly word. Having an age upper limit is not more discriminatory than the lower limit we already have in all countries.

i can't remember if it's US congressmen or state or what but there are a ton of politicians that stay in office juuuust long enough to get either that lifelong pension or lifelong healthcare or both. like they have basically gamified political office for personal gain at this point.

No dam lasts forever without periodically lowering the water to perform maintenance. Without term limits and a change of face at the top, you're asking a system of protections to last indefinitely under persistent, inexorable pressure, in a changing world. No skilled engineer in the world would sign off on such a design.

Judges should get a ten year term, no reelection possible

term limits are very much *not* desirable for judges. the whole point is that they outlast political whims of the day and don't have to worry about setting themselves up for what to do after. age limits, yes.

if people would keep voting for him, it wouldn't matter in the long run if he himself couldn't run

He might not need to, and no, I'm not referring to the Golden Big Mac.

I will be in Budapest next week during the elections and I'm looking forward to seeing it go down in real time. Here's hoping Magyar wins!

Or more likely to the US like his daughter already did.

how is it not likely? the opposition is leading by 23 points, polymarket has Tisza winning at like 78% probability

There are no other parties. There's Orbán's fidesz, MHM a far right party who aligns with fidesz despite denying it publicly, and two other parties, MKKP certainly bought by fidesz, DK either delusional cretins or bought by fidesz, most likely both. And than there is Tisza, who made his whole campaign about distancing themselves from everyone involved with the past 16 year's opposition. Pretty much everyone in Tisza is new to national politics and this has worked for them really well. Some parties who actually care about removing fidesz from government didn't even register for the election and a few independent candidates and members from DK and MKKP who suddenly grew a spine later withrew from the election. The only purpose of MKKP and DK is to dilute the candidate list and take away much needed votes from Tisza, according to the polls they wont get into parliment and it's a coin toss for MHM aswell. It is very likely we'll get a two party parliment in favor of Tisza and supermajority is an actual possiblity. A good indicator is that the oligarch are evacuating their assets abroad, fidesz politicians are having public meltdowns and their election results party is going to be at the airport.

Orban spent the last 15 years changing rules to slant elections in the biggest parties’ favor, it just happened to be that Fidesz was the biggest one forever, with no strong opposition in sight. Now Tisza can actually benefit from that, but we’ll see in a week.

Comparing the current democratic party to an opposition that STEAMROLLED Orban is a bit ridiculous. Hungarians understood that they need to get rid of old guard liberals first before taking on Orban, as they're part of the problem.

Yes, but whilst the limit is in place Orban can’t run, it would have to be another fidesz member without his popularity. That person would not be hasty to remove the limit as that would mean Orban would want to run the next time.