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[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Boy is this lively. I certainly have my concerns as Magyar is former Fidez and of a Minister Portfolio and by all accounts is very much a conservative politician.

But as far as EU policy is concerned his win is likely to finally get Hungry to be in line with the rest of Erouope.

Also remember Trump sent Vance over to try and election campaign against him so that tells you how the people of Hungry feel about that.

All and all consider this winning a battle but the war continues

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So, while I'm not too knowledgeable about politics in Hungary, this may or may not be relevant...

In Canada we used to have the progressive conservative party, and the reform party. The reform party was the religious / right wing nut jobs, and the PC's were, well I'm not really sure what i was too young to follow it to closely, but they weren't like the reform party. How progressive they were though I don't really know, it could have just been a name... The reform party would be closer to MAGA than what the PC's were.

The right wing parties were losing elections though to the Liberals, so Harper managed to bring both the PCs and the Reform together under 1 party, with their sometimes very wildly different views. As much as he was damaging to Canada, Harper was an excellent politician and he managed to keep control of these 2 factions within the party as Prime Minister for almost 10 years.

Once Trudeau came into power after people had had enough of Harper, these two factions in the federal conservatives have been in a sense fighting each other. We had Erin O'Toole as one of their leaders, and he was trying to be more middle on some topics, and the nut job part of the faction threw him out.

I'm saying all this to say... Maybe, just maybe, Magyar has thrown out the bad seeds in the party. Yes, it's still going to be a conservative government, but maybe we can get back to what politics was like before the crazy right wing nut jobs infiltrated all the conservative parties around the world and made things much worse.

I would love to see our conservative parties here throw out the bad seeds. We just had a merger of right leaning, and nut job parties like this in BC, but we narrowly shut them out in the last election, and watching what has happened within that party since, has been a gongshow.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We are living in a world where both the US and Russia support the same piece of shit. What the fuck

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

US and Russia were always aggreeing on basically the same thing. They might disagree on who is going to be the leader of the fascist world, but they very much aggree that the world should be fascist and have a leader.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

someone mentioned hes mostly center right.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Conservative is fine. Being Putin's lapdog is not.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

How is conservative fine? All EU conservative parties support Israel which is actively committing genocide.