Pro-Putin Leaders in Hungary and Serbia Set to Win Re-election

NY Times ^ | April 3, 2022 | Andrew Higgins and Benjamin Novak

[McGruff]

Overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, elections on Sunday in Hungary and Serbia appear to have extended the tenures of Europe’s two most Kremlin-friendly leaders, both populist strongmen fortified by their overwhelming control of the media and cheap energy from Russia.

With more than 60 percent of the votes counted in Hungary, preliminary results indicated that Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister since 2010, and already Europe’s longest serving leader, had won a fourth consecutive term despite accusations by the opposition that he has enabled Russia’s military onslaught by cozying up for years to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

“We won a victory so big that you can perhaps see it from the moon, and certainly from Brussels,” Mr. Orban told a jubilant crowd of supporters late Sunday

[escapefromboston]

Good for them.

[JonPreston]

A large blow to Mr Potato Head, and his Zelenskyyites.

[EvilCapitalist]

So if you’re right-wing, or Conservative you’re instantly Pro-Putin?

[JonPreston]

Yes, the same people who ran the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax on Trump for 3 years are running this.

[DarthVader]

They are big time Anti-Soros people.

[LouieFisk]

“accusations by the opposition that he has enabled Russia’s military onslaught by cozying up for years to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia”
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Democrat party expanded to Hungary.

[catnipman]

“So if you’re right-wing, or Conservative you’re instantly Pro-Putin?”

just another variation of the left’s russia, russia, russia mantra ...

[canuck_conservative]

Orban is on our side!

Lefties have been trying to get him for years, because he stood up to the immigrant invasion (same with Poland)

NY Slimes, doing more of their usual sliming!!!

[traderrob6]

If you’re against globalism and the new world order you are automatically “pro-Putin”, simple as that.

[Neo_objectivist]

So if you’re right-wing, or Conservative you’re instantly Pro-Putin?

IMO it's more about being a Nationalist - Nation First. They are an existential threat to the NWO globalist oligarchs. They want incompetent regimes that will sell out their own people.

[McGruff]

Some of us are not UnitedForUkriane.

[BobL]

So much for ‘isolating Putin’. Let’s see how the Bidenistas here try to spin it.

[lightman]

The homofascists are in full meltdown...

[McGruff]

[DarthVader]

It’s all falling together now is it not?

[Migraine]

Anyway — only idiots believe they are voting pro-putin. They are voting pro-Hungarian and pro-Serbian and anti-EUroweenie.

[artichokegrower]

Some of us are for countries having secure borders. Invasions from Russia or from Latin America are to be repulsed

[dfwgator]

FUGS!

[G Larry]

Where is the proof that Hungary is aligned with Putin?