Posted on 04/16/2026 7:20:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
U.S. Conservatives were down in the dumps about Viktor Orbán's loss in the parliamentary election in Hungary.
As Beege wrote last night, perhaps that sentiment was a bit premature, based more on the European Union's desire to replace Orbán than any real reason to worry about his successor, Péter Magyar. Magyar, after all, was not some socialist opponent of Orbán, but until recently his right-hand man.
He defected from Orbán over what appear to be legitimate concerns about massive corruption in the Orbán regime, rather than over policy differences with the political platform of Orbán's party, Fidesz.
The European Union may have made noises about corruption in Hungary, but its real gripe was over Hungary's conservative social and immigration policies, and on those matters, Magyar, if anything, seems ready to double down on giving the European Union the finger.
🇭🇺 🧵HUGE! Magyar Péter RESPONDS to the 27 Demands of the European Union!
"Only 4 of those 27 conditions will be fulfilled!"
•Strengthening anti-corruption measures
•Restoring independence to investigative authorities/ judicial system.
•Restoring press freedom (government…
pic.twitter.com/y7LmzTXwTX— Based Hungary 🇭🇺 (@HungaryBased) April 15, 2026
🇭🇺 🧵HUGE! Magyar Péter RESPONDS to the 27 Demands of the European Union!
"Only 4 of those 27 conditions will be fulfilled!"
•Strengthening anti-corruption measures
•Restoring independence to investigative authorities/ judicial system.
•Restoring press freedom (government funds will stop)
•Restoring freedom in the academic environment.
Everything Else will be Protected!
Magyar Péter communicates the fact, that the policies of no income tax for mothers and pensions will NOT be changed. He also states he doesn't plan to increase income taxes.
Magyar wants to keep the southern border fence, and REJECTS the EU Migration and Asylum Pact.
He states his priority is to reinstate the Druzhba pipeline's operation as its the key to Hungary's economy.
He also OUTLINES Ukraine, will NOT enter the EU unless they come to an agreement of suitable rights for ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia, including restoring the linguistic, educational, and cultural rights.
Magyar states any money sent from the EU to Ukraine, Hungary will opt out of. He also plans to conduct a referendum on Ukraine's accession into the EU.
The rights, programs and support for ethnic Hungarians is also to be continued and NOT abandoned.
He also states he will DEFEND Hungary's interests and is NOT a federalist.
Overall, it is increasingly looking like not a lot will change. Alot of Orbán's international allies have also congratulated him already.
I'm increasingly getting the idea that the EU and the NGOs have no idea who they placed into power. They made a huge compromise with Hungary's patriots just to win the elections in Hungary.
I'm also seeing a tendency that his anti-Orbán but mainly anti-Fidesz position is largely just cinema. To show to the West and the leftists that voted him that there will be a 'change' in the country.
The leftists also made a huge compromise because they don't constitute any political party in the Hungarian Parliament anymore.
The actual leadership around Magyar is dominated by centre-right, technocratic, and ex-fidesz pragmatists — not hardcore leftists or green activists.
The parliamentary group of the Tisza party is mixed but centre-right dominated. It is not evenly split left/right. The left/green element is visible but secondary. They were more present in the voter base over actual elected MPs.
The faction is built around Magyar’s centre-right inner circle. The left-liberal baggage exists but is mostly in the voter coalition and lower ranks.
Overall, I would say this is good news. Although I would be still cautious especially of their status in the EPP, but it may be true that we just elected one patriot with another. Let's also NOT forget Fidesz and Orbán were in the EPP until 2021.
One is for certain, Hungary will NO longer block or veto Ukraine's weapons or money from the EU, and we will be in this regard be "re-accepted by NATO".
About the only thing the EU has to be happy about is that Hungary will no longer impede the EU's Russia policy, which I have to say is not exactly the most important issue for US conservatives, nor, I assume, for Hungary's. I certainly have no love for Putin, although I think Ukraine would be better off finding a way to end the war, which is likely to be a stalemate for years, otherwise, even with Ukraine's revitalized military strategy and increasing drone capabilities.
Péter Magyar, like Orbán, has invited Netanyahu to Hungary—signaling he would not enforce the International Criminal Court warrant against him.
Hungary, as an International Criminal Court member, is obligated to arrest Netanyahu if he enters the country.Netanyahu’s Office:
Netanyahu and Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar held a warm introductory conversation a short while ago.
Magyar said he intends to continue the close relations between Hungary and Israel, and even invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to attend a
https://t.co/BXzGWNQe99— Clash Report (@clashreport) April 15, 2026
Magyar is no transnationalist, which is the important part. He has no intention of opening Hungary's borders to Islamists, whatever the EU wants him to do. He appears fine with accepting European fines in exchange for protecting Hungarian citizens, and remains a thorn in Ursula von der Leyen's side.
🚨BREAKING NEWS: NEW HUNGARIAN PM PÉTER MAGYAR PROMISES TO KEEP ORBÁN’S STRICT ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICY — “WE WILL MAINTAIN AND REINFORCE THE BORDER FENCE” 🔥🇭🇺
In his first major statement after winning the elections, Péter Magyar (Tisza party) made it crystal clear:… pic.twitter.com/3gR8OhYkaS— Slavic Networks (@SlavicNetworks) April 14, 2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: NEW HUNGARIAN PM PÉTER MAGYAR PROMISES TO KEEP ORBÁN’S STRICT ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICY — “WE WILL MAINTAIN AND REINFORCE THE BORDER FENCE” 🔥🇭🇺
In his first major statement after winning the elections, Péter Magyar (Tisza party) made it crystal clear: Hungary will continue the same hard line on immigration. He told the EU Commission and European leaders that Hungary will reject any migration pact or relocation mechanism, keep the reinforced border fence (and even fix the holes that “probably weren’t accidental”), and will NOT release 2,200 convicted human traffickers like Orbán did. He said: “We want to honestly protect our country and Europe from illegal immigration. Legal ways exist and must be respected.”
In most things that matter, it seems that Magyar is a less corrupt and compromised Orbán, which to me seems a good thing. Corruption is corrosive and economically damaging, and deep ties to Russia are not exactly the path to lasting economic growth.
🇭🇺HUGE! Magyar Péter DECLARES a STOP on all Guest Workers by June 1st, 2026.
"Its a system that can only be fixed by going radically in the complete opposite direction." pic.twitter.com/4Tsk5qf3n4— Based Hungary 🇭🇺 (@HungaryBased) April 16, 2026
It's still possible that Magyar will turn out to be worse than he now appears; he is, after all, a politician. But in a lot of ways, it looks like Orbán has a worthy successor, without all the baggage. And Magyar will have done it by using the resources of the European Union to fund his rise to power.
How cool is that? We can hope, can't we?
When Ursula says “Jump!”, Magyar will say “How High?”
Save it comrade.
Orban was owned by Chicoms.
Orban turned out to be scum, as well, in the end.
But they are just trading one set of chains for the other.
Yeah.
Hungarian Abigail Spanberger?
Talk like a moderate conservative but govern like a leftist?
It’s all over except for the BorisBots’ crying
Was Spanberger once a leader of Republican Party?
The Chinese population in Hungary is estimated to be between 20,000 and 30,000 as of 2023–2024, making it the largest Chinese diaspora in the Central and Eastern European region.
Doing jobs the locals refuse to do...
Words are cheap. Deeds are what matters. I do not think for an instant that the EU was celebrating for less than solid reasons.
“who they placed into power”
That’s bull.
The Hungarian people placed Tisza into power. Not the EU, not the USA, not Soros, not any non Hungarian power.
Tisza’s concerns are Hungarian not MAGA nor anti-MAGA.
On what basis for you say that? I mean actual proof?
Perhaps we ought for an instant to think why our administration supported a toady of Putin, an enemy of Ukraine, a notoriously corrupt politician, and, granted, a staunch anti-immigration administrator. Why meddle in Hungarian politics to support him when his opponent was equally, if not more, anti-immigration and a bona fide conservative?
Perhaps it was because Orban was an ally of Russia, an enemy of Ukraine, an enemy of the European union.
What does that tell us about our administration?
Orban was n charge for 16 years.
They hold so big majority, they could change constitution on a whim.
So naturally, without checks and balances, they got corrupted. They twisted the voting rules to favor the biggest party, which actually now turned against them, as Tisza is now dominant party.
So, yes, this is not repudiation of conservatism in Hungary.
And, by the way, just recently, anti globalists won in Czechia and Slovakia, and likely in Slovenia.
So there still be a veto vote in EU against Ursula, if she tries to do something outrageous.
There are three groups of people who are really annoyed that Orban lost:
1. The Russian revanchist commentariat, the Russian revanchist leadership, the GRU and SVU, and even teams that were copying the 2014 playbook (parking themselves across Crimea and the Donbas, sponsoring pro-Russian, pro-separatist groups, and running interference)
2. The (apparently) pro-Putin, anti-Western folks who’re masquerading as pro-American, MAGA conservatives.
3. Orban himself, and the people around him - who gerrymandered and distorted the entire electoral system purely to give him an enormous advantage over any opponent.
The Hungarian people could only depose him by voting so overwhelmingly for someone else that even the deliberately and grossly distorted system set up to keep him in power couldn’t possibly paint him as the victor. The best thing about what just happened in Hungary is, you can’t diminish the win in any way by arguing that the EU won it, or Soros won it, or Putin won it.
The way Magyar won, only Hungary gets the credit, and the message THAT sends to Moscow is utterly devastating. Putin thought his boy had all the cards, but still tried to load the deck. The GRU and SVU even thought they had Vance (apparently) campaigning on their side. And yet, despite all that, Hungary comprehensively cleaned the Kremlin clock without firing a single shot.
There’s only one way you can really forgive the second faux-MAGA group, and that’s if they can convince us that their justifications for being so blatantly pro-the-Putin-stooge was that this outcome is exactly what they hoped would happen.
Anyone who, a fortnight ago, was resolutely in the “I’d rather have a MAGA style ‘my country first’ anti-corruption, pro conservative patriot LOSE to the world’s most obvious, anti- Putin puke than challenge an obvious Kremlin sponsored narrative that he’s being backed by Obama/Biden/Soros/Euroweenies” camp should maybe take a step back, look at just how bloody ridiculous that position was, and do a bit of soul searching.
This is more or less what the ridiculous strategy was for Iran.
I said that...so did Dr. Steve Turley....
Is not the Trump administration "apparently" pro-Putin if it is judged by its pro-Orbán, anti-Magyar policy?
By way of fair comment, I note that the administration has just announced it is restoring sanctions against the purchase of Ukrainian oil, a welcome step.
If this were true, why did Ursula van der Leyen and George Soros back Magyar? They aren’t concerned about corruption, they’re concerned with destroying nationalist movements. Magyar is a “conservative” in the EU mold, think Angel Merkel rather than the LePens.
Most of the political figures, from Narendra Modi to Viktor Orban, who are accused of being "pro-Putin" are really only "guilty" of the alleged offense of not caring about Ukraine, or not caring enough. Both Modi and Orban pursued their nation's interests - that meant buying the least expensive oil and gas, Ukraine's interests be damned. And rightly so - they're heads of state in India and Hungary, not Ukraine.
If this were even half-true, Magyar wouldn't have had the steadfast backing of Brussels and the Soros clan.
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