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Does he? He's a terrible leader, stripping his fellow citizens of rights, manipulating them through a media monopoly, enriching himself while impovering them. But, unless I didn't get the news, he does not reign by terror, did not set up concentration camps, did not use killings as means of politics. If you want justice as in quid pro quo, he should be stripped of his rights (aka imprisoned) and impoverished (aka property confiscated).
And even if he pulled a Stalin – we don't do death sentences in Europe. And even if you're a fan of the death sentence – letting someone rot in jail while watching his country thrive is a far harsher punishment than a couple of minutes of death agony.
Of course I have to warn, because I'm hungarian, that I might be biased but I do believe he indirectly caused the deaths of thousands or even tens of thousands. They embezzled billions in funds meant for hospitals, daycares, incubators, agriculture, etc which lead to a great amount of misfortune. Every day people die from preventable diseases because either the medical institutions are under-equiped and understaffed or because of the huge quality of life gap that has developed between the rest of the eu and hungary due to inflation and stagnating, sometimes decreasing, pay. After all this the most incriminating action was that during the covid pandemic they embezzled money directly meant for buying intubators and more hospital beds which lead to more people having to be triaged, get left for dead, because of the actions of Orbán and his gang. This isn't even one percent of the grief that they have caused over these 15 years. I am against the death sentence in almsot any case but this time its because i want to see him rot in a fucking prison cell for the rest of his life.