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| Will Viktor Orban Bring Down the House That Davos Built? (Elections Today) |
| 2022-04-03 |
| [GoldGoatsGuns] Today Hungarians go to the polls to decide their future. What they may not realize is that they also are deciding on the future of most of the European continent in the process. Sitting Prime Minister Viktor Orban is vying for his fourth term in office, having been in power for 12 years and he is under intense opposition from within and without. It’s an open secret that Orban is reviled in Brussels. And because of his basic sense of common decency and nationalism that means he must be removed from office in order to ensure the full consolidation of power with the European Commission and European Council. That only happens with his removal and a Brussels-centric puppet controlled by George Soros and the Davos Crowd put in his place. There is a real sense of desperation surrounding this bid to remove Orban. The formation of a ridiculous Not-Orban coalition of no less than six parties, none of whom would piss in each other’s mouths if their throats were on fire, is pure desperation. It is the apotheosis of the Davos strategy to put in power weak coalitions that can be torn apart at the seams but whose members are also so enamored with being in power they won’t collapse the government as popular opinion turns against them. This is how Davos engineered Mario Draghi’s takeover in Italy. Five Star Movement cut a deal with the Democrats to oust Lega despite the polls being completely against the idea of such a government after Matteo Salvini pulled out of his coalition with Five Star back in 2019. Germany’s ‘Traffic Light’ coalition members have almost nothing in common but in no way will you see the FDP, for example, pull out of it with their sinking poll numbers, now just 8%, even though they could. Instead, we see Finance Minister and FDP leader Christian Lindner doing exactly what he was put in power to do, gum up the financial works and prep the stage for the transference of Germany’s power within the EU to the EU. But all of that unravels if Orban is free for another four years to veto every stupid and belligerent idea that comes out of the European Council. Hungary is already under financing sanctions from the EU over their anti-LGBT laws, threatening to block distributions from the EU budget. The EU have already gotten the Poles to knuckle under because the Poles are dependent on Germany for gas flows thanks to their own intransigence in cutting deals with Russia for energy. Hungary, on the other hand, has energy independence from Brussels by having contracted directly with Gazprom for natural gas via Turkstream’s train that goes into Serbia and Hungary. This should give you some context as to why the EU is trying to sanction Serbia and cut off the flows of that pipeline where it crosses EU territory in Bulgaria. Related: Viktor Orban: 2022-03-26 From the Ukrainian perspective: Russian invasion of Ukraine, March 26th, 2022 Viktor Orban: 2022-03-07 Russian special forces 'furious' with war plan in Ukraine Viktor Orban: 2022-02-10 After two long years Boris Johnson finally declares that ALL Covid rules - including self-isolation after testing positive - are set to be scrapped from the end of THIS MONTH |
| Posted by:DooDahMan |
| #10 As we all know, exposure to the wrong sort of media can result in badthink. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-04-03 20:57 |
| #9 And here's a beaut (but a good one) from Twitter: Readers of English-language media may wish to reconsider their sources of information about Hungarian politics. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-04-03 20:49 |
| #8 ^^ Just f'n pathetic out of the CBC. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-04-03 20:44 |
| #7 Deeply hilarious "it's just too soon to say" report from CBC. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-03 20:43 |
| #6 I'm sure that fellow Hungarian Soros is hating every second of it. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-04-03 20:40 |
| #5 Don't get cocky, all the votes aren't in. It ain't 4AM yet, still 'found ballots' to be had and the dead haven't yet voted. These are the globalists (or NN2N1's 'LSDs') he's against. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-04-03 18:20 |
| #4 Update (1700ET): AFP reports that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban claimed a "great victory" in Sunday's general election, as partial results gave his Fidesz party the lead. Addressing a jubilant crowd chanting his name, Orban said: "We have won a great victory -- a victory so great you can perhaps see it from the moon and certainly from Brussels". |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-03 18:00 |
| #3 Excellent! I like Orban as much as he drives them crazy. If I were Hungarian, I'd be an Orban fan voter |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-04-03 17:48 |
| #2 A later count continues the trend, from the Times of Israel: With 63 percent of the votes counted, Orban’s Fidesz party had gained 55.16% of the vote versus 33.09% for the six-party opposition coalition in the national party list vote which determines 93 seats out of the 199-seat chamber. Fidesz also enjoys a clear lead in the results for individual constituencies, which determine the rest of the seats. Woot! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-04-03 17:16 |
| #1 From the ZH link to the above. I guess the cheating operation will have to kick into overdrive now. Update (1600ET): Much to the chagrin of the elites - as detailed below - Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party took a commanding lead in Hungarian elections, according to an early count that appeared to dim the chances of a six-party opposition alliance to block him from a fourth consecutive term. With 36% of the votes counted, mostly from rural districts that are the core of Orban’s support base, his Fidesz party was leading a six-party opposition alliance 58% to 30% on Sunday in the party list vote. It was also tipped to win a large majority of the electoral districts that may give it close to a two-thirds parliamentary majority. “We expect a clear victory,” Cabinet Minister Gergely Gulyas told reporters. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-03 16:31 |