Uplifting News

Finally! Congratulations to the Hungarian voters who voted against the fucking Russian and MAGA stooge. Welcome back to the EU!

as a Hungarian I'm over the moon 🎆🎆🎆

Hope Vance comes to Spain to endorse Feijoo (right) and Abascal (extreme right) too. Everytime he endorses someone, this one loses!

Great!

But let's not rest on our laurels.

The next step is getting green and social democratic candidates that will garner attention and excite voters, and have a chance to do a good job that will show people that they need to vote in their best interest and those who will defend them.

Conservative liberals are way better than dictators, particularly when they like to sprinkle social policies like taxing the wealthiest more and using the revenue for public services, but they also tend to do stuff that lets things ratchet back to oligarchy.

We also should get the UK to turn back, and Poland, Italy and others to wake up too. And many are still in the edge.

I know! Let's get Vance to do a tour through Europe! Having him endorse all the people he likes the most! That'll show the people who they can't trust.

Thanks J.D. 😄

I know little enough about the guy, but if he was approved by Donnie I presume he was horrible.

This post has been on the top of my home feed all day and it brought a smile to my face every time I opened Lemmy lol

After Trumps election it is good to see, that democracy still can do good for the people

I see many "but he is also far right" comments. Peter Magyar might be on the right side of the scale, but he did not base his program on far right rhetoric at all. Its also impressive how many world class experts Magyar got for his party for major ministry roles. Many businessman and leaders from other sectors. Its a bit similar to the ruling change after the communism ended in Hungary, when instead of politicians, scientists, recognized intellectuals and experts got the ministry roles.

They seems to want to focus on repairing the damage, what Orbans gang caused, getting back all the EU funds and building up basic systems, like education and healthcare from scratch.

I'm part Hungarian and did not have a right to vote, but followed closely the whole thing and it might not look like it, but its a huuuge thing. All my Hungarian friends/colleagues are celebrating, after all they got rid of a cancerous tumor.

I was very unsure that Orban hadn't rigged the election, and Hungary would become like Belarus.
I am so relieved to see that democracy worked in Hungary, despite Orban controlling most of the media.

His last name is Magyar?

His last name is basically "Hungarian" lol

Most important: it's even a 2/3 majority. Without that, Orban could have still blocked most of the changes. Now, he cannot.

Hopefully they will be able to fund Ukraine now and kick Russia the fuck out of Europe.

Been thinking a lot about the, "you can't vote your way out if this," doomer leftists today.

One fascist less. Congratulations to Hungary!

Wow, JD Vance did something good!

/s While I am in the US, I recognize he was not the reason of Orbán's loss. Not that US-centered. Just making a dumb joke.

I hope this is a true turning point, but Magyar is still fairly conservative himself, so I won't be too optimistic.

Glad to hear this good news.

But also, Politico is a shit rag. Don't link to them.

Great, now put Orban in prison for his crimes against democracy so he can't come back.

he even conceded:

In a surprisingly early and gracious concession speech in Budapest, Mr. Orban congratulated the opposition saying, “The responsibility and opportunity to govern were not given to us.” But, he also made a vow: “We are not giving up. Never, never, never.”

—https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world/europe/hungary-election-orban-magyar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aVA.Kuhl.h2lgWO2W5PiU

Now do Putin