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Posted on 02/17/2026 7:39:09 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar launched his party’s election campaign in Budapest on Sunday, vowing to restore Hungary’s Western orientation just eight weeks before he faces Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a pivotal vote.
Magyar, a former insider in Orbán’s nationalist Fidesz party, burst onto Hungary’s political scene in 2024 after breaking with his political community and quickly forming the center-right Tisza party.
After taking around 30% of the vote in European Parliament elections in June 2024, he has grown Tisza into the most formidable political force Orbán has faced during his 16 years at Hungary’s helm. Most independent polls show Tisza with a significant lead before the April 12 vote, an advantage which has held steady for more than a year.
“We’re standing on the threshold of victory with 56 days left to go,” he told supporters during his speech at an exposition center in Budapest on Sunday. “Tisza stands ready to govern.”
Magyar has vigorously campaigned across Hungary’s rural, conservative heartland — traditionally an Orbán stronghold — holding rallies and town hall events in scores of villages and towns. He has focused on bread and butter issues such as low wages and rapidly rising living costs that have made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the European Union.
Magyar accuses Orbán and his government of mismanaging Hungary’s economy and social services, and overseeing unchecked corruption he says has led to the accumulation of extreme wealth within a small circle of well-connected insiders while leaving ordinary Hungarians behind.
He has also criticized Orbán for conducting a combative foreign policy with the EU while maintaining close ties to Russia despite its war in neighboring Ukraine.
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My advice to Mr. Magyar is to spend some time in a no-go region of Paris. And while also carrying a picture of Mohammed. That might cause him to reconsider getting Hungary to be more like Western Europe.
As a side note, “magyar” (not capitalized) means “Hungarian” in the Hungarian language. I wonder if that’s his real last name, or if he changed it.
Or he could spend some time in the oppressive police-state dictatorship known as “Putin’s Russia”, and then realize that siding with Western Europe is the only sensible choice
Who wants to side with a malicious monster?
A serious question.
Would you rather be in London or Paris over Moscow and St. Petersburg?
How about Malmo, Sweden.
Putin is a thug. But at least Russia is still Russia.
Davos used the same false choice with Ukraine, and purposely pushed them into war with Russia, which will ultimately eliminate Ukraine as a country.
Hungary and Russia will not go to war as only Brussels-Davos has interest in war but the lesson is clear: “Beware Davos Globohomo bearing gifts”
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Too bad!
Orban was steadfast in protecting European and western civ values and standung up to the eurowinie globalists.
“Who wants to side with a malicious monster?”
Are you raking about the EUSSR?
I am somewhat familiar with Hungary and its history, as all four of my grandparents were born there. Two points please.
1. No one in Hungary has any fondness for Russia. There is much bad blood there. In fact, October 23rd is a national holiday in Hungary. That’s the day in 1956 when Hungarians rose up against their Soviet occupiers.
2. Prime Minister Orbán is not pro-Putin or pro-Russia. Instead, he is pro-Hungary. He’s trying to walk a fine line between the reckless EU and reckless Russia.
Sounds like it’s time for another EU/CIA rigged election...
Says the man living in the police state of Cnada. As I look around Europe, I see no free nations. All are of some degree or another, police states themselves. Hungry is perhaps the freesest nation, and I want to remain so.
The U.S. secretary of state said in Budapest that the president was “deeply committed” to the success of Viktor Orban, who has boasted of creating an “illiberal state.”
Hungary IS the west.
It will be a pleasure to see Orban get the boot from the Hungarian people on April 12th.
Good riddance!
In 2024, 400 people were arrested in Russia for something they said online. In the UK, it was 3300. And Russia has twice the population.
So in the UK alone, you are 16 times more likely to be arrested for an online posting than in Russia. Like it or not, people in Russia have far more personal freedom than people in the UK. They also have more than in the EU where they do not even vote for their EU leaders.
They get to vote for the EU parliament which has zero power, but beyond that, nope...
If you want thugs, talk about Kier Starmer, Macron, Von Der Leyen, and their bankster masters.
Those rascals! Shooting back when the Russians invaded and causing a war. If those Ukrainians had simply surrendered, not so many people would have been killed. Just the relatively small number of people that Putin would have poisoned or pushed off of tall buildings.
Off topic, but yesterday I got a new colleague at work, whose last name is Canada. I spent the whole day trying not to sing, "O Myself, it is my true last name..."
Back to topic. Orban has been the best thing for Hungary since Attila, but he leans to Moscow instead of us. Magyar would be a million times worse, so we support Orban.
> but he [Orbán] leans to Moscow instead of us <
Please see my post #8.
London and Paris “great cities”? Maybe 30-40 years ago. Now they are dangerous authoritarian shit holes utterly dominated by moslem and African rapists. Or maybe you mean Stockholm that get a grenade explosion daily and rape is completely ignored. And in none of those places can you say anything that occurs to you. In London you cannot even silently pray.
Meanwhile in St P or Moscow you can safely walk the streets at night barring some SBU terror attack.
And you in Canada, you are free to say what you did because it agrees with the government position. But if you said what I did, you face legal proceedings.
Essentially, your voice is meaningless because we know you cannot speak freely. So we have to regard you as a hostage at the door of the bank saying “hey, they are treating us well”.
Maybe, maybe not...
“Look, everybody knows.... blah blah blah”.
Everyone knows is a centerpiece of logical failure.
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