Hungarian Politics

[Tamas]

Pretty much. the part listing citizens with no hungarian address, at least.

[Valmy]

"Judeo-commune" (Zydo-komuna) (a claim that Jews hated good Polish/Hungarian/etc. Catholics so much, they became communist oopressors after the war) is the new blood libel in our part of Europe.

Heh I took a course of 20th Century Eastern Europe during my short period in Grad School, and IIRC one of the best ways to get turned into the secret police was to be Jewish.  I remember thinking how shitty that had to be...survived the Holocaust, got back to work and going about your business and then somebody rats you out to Securitate for being a Bourgeois counter-revolutionary.

[Tamas]

This morning a band of security guards basically assaulted a small community building owned by the local municipality in Budapest. As it turns out, the municipality (FIDESZ-ran of course) or rather, the government, discovered that the recent flashmob-y opposition demonstrations by the young people were planned and organized in that building.
So the security personnel beat down the locks, installed new ones and proceeded to clear the building. About half a dozen guys refuse to leave right now, police and catastrophe recovery (!) is now on the scene as well.

The director of the building told the press that he was contacted yesterday late afternoon that they until today morning to empty the premises, which wa simply impossible since they had equipment and furniture and shit.

This getting less and less funny every week.

[Martinus]

Was it a squat or did they legally lease these premises?

[Tamas]

Was it a squat or did they legally lease these premises?

There were some debates over its fate some months ago as I read, but then the municipality and the leasers reached an agreement, so it was legal.

[Tamas]

so looks like these idiots stopped paying rent for that building. God damn, if you go against a reckless government, cover your ass.

Also, a German TV covered our amendment with a cartoon or something in a news show for kids.
Our government got pissed of course, but what's best is that apparently Orban made a comment along the lines of "if this happened on a hungarian TV the creators would be out of the station in no time"
O RLY MR DICTATOR WANNABE?

The guy is less and less able to hide his real intentions and take on the relationship between him and his nation.

[Liep]

For the Danish speaking. Here is a nice article to give an overview of Hungarian politics.

http://www.information.dk/455355

(P.S. I wonder if Krarup thinks this is an assassination attempt on Orban?)

[Tamas]

There was a local election in a town, where the new party of the ex-PM Bajnai had its first test. They had a mayor candidate. The other big opposition party the Socialists also had their own.

Result? Altough Bajnai's candidate got second place, the FIDESZ candidate so trashed everyone else, that even the combined votes on opposition candidates would not have been enough. 

[Valmy]

Corruption?  Or does FIDESZ now enjoy overwhelming support?

[Tamas]

Corruption?  Or does FIDESZ now enjoy overwhelming support?

Actually I am quite certain it was a fair result. The latest country-wide polls showed two things:
-the huge amount of unsure people are mobilizing
-they mostly flock to FIDESZ

I need to GTFO

[Tamas]

latest news is, they will refrain from making the number of non-local citizens secret.

[Jacob]

For the Danish speaking. Here is a nice article to give an overview of Hungarian politics.

http://www.information.dk/455355

(P.S. I wonder if Krarup thinks this is an assassination attempt on Orban?)

Nej, det tror jeg ikke det er. Eller mente du en anden Krarup?

[Martinus]

latest news is, they will refrain from making the number of non-local citizens secret.

It seems your government's m.o is what we had under the rule of PiS.

Essentially, every week they would announce some outlandish shit that would get people up in arms only to be scrapped the following week, while they would do what they really want in the background.

[Tamas]

latest news is, they will refrain from making the number of non-local citizens secret.

It seems your government's m.o is what we had under the rule of PiS.

Essentially, every week they would announce some outlandish shit that would get people up in arms only to be scrapped the following week, while they would do what they really want in the background.

yeah, pretty much

[Syt]