Landslide victory for Hungary's conservative opposition

BBC ^ | 20:57 GMT, Sunday, 25 April 2010 21:57 UK

[annalex]

Good news from Europe...

[GeronL]

The ruling party got 15%??

Wow

[Col Frank Slade]

Very interesting...

[Clintonfatigued]

This is a huge victory. The ruling Socialists only won 15% of the vote to 68% for the conservative opposition.

[annalex]

No kidding.

Imagine the hand-wringing at the EU.

[JoSixChip]

"The ruling party got 15%??"

That would be a dream come true here.

[eclecticEel]

Fidesz promised to create jobs, lower taxes and reduce bureaucracy.

And meanwhile, the US votes for unemployment, taxes, and bureaucracy.

[Fred Hayek]

A major vicotry fro true consevatism in Hungary.
Lower taxes, less bureaucracy, and another former communist country’s economy about to become very healthy.

The formerly ruling Socialist Party now down to 15% of the seats in Parliament? Ouch!

[GeronL]

That would be awesome here.

The entire Socialist Party leadership has resigned.

[Signalman]

One by one, European countries are axing the Socialists. It’s our turn on November 2nd.

[manc]

much of Europe is turning right while we have some goons and dumb idiots who think left and their agenda is the best thing for America even though socialism . communism has never worked anywhere in history

Eastern Europe knows what communism is about as they lived it, shame the idiots who voted for this phony could not go and live under communism when it was around and see how it doesn’t work

[GeronL]

With 99.22% of votes counted, the party had nearly 68% of the popular vote and 263 of the 386 seats in parliament, the national election committee said

Talk about a super-majority

[Yardstick]

Wow, this looks really good. They rejected the toxic statist parties of both the left and the right, and instead chose a good conservative party. This seems like a very healthy outcome.

[appeal2]

Good news from the land of Kafka. And he absolutely understood the evils of government run amuck and out of control bureaucracy. The Bamster could learn a thing or two from him.

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[Piranha]

Kafka was from Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), not from Hungary.

[Frantzie]

Maybe I should emigrate. Eastern Europe appears to be the only areas that might stand up to Islam.

[Impy]

They got 19% in the first round.

I meant to keep tabs on this election but totally spaced on it.

Fidesz won a majority of seats in the first round 2 weeks ago.

Quite a butt kicking they gave the 1 term socialist government. The socialist vote was more than halved from the last election.

[Hawthorn]

>> Kafka was from Prague <<

Yep. It was the Gabor sisters who were from Hungary.

[GeronL]

The Socialists must suck rocks in that country. Have they not captured the media and schools yet?