Hungarian Politics

[Tamas]

There are almost daily occurances of mid and high level Fidesz-appointees (including a constutional court judge) inexplicably finding in themselves the outraged democrat and raising their voice against some injustice.

It's pathetic.

[Valmy]

There are almost daily occurances of mid and high level Fidesz-appointees (including a constutional court judge) inexplicably finding in themselves the outraged democrat and raising their voice against some injustice.

It's pathetic.

Those guys didn't get their jobs because of their courage and integrity.

[Sheilbh]

Interesting to see Naftali Bennett using Hungary as an example in his rhetoric - God willing they deliver too (and I think the polls are very good for the opposition bloc).

That does feel like it'd be a fairly real analogy with Magyar too

[Tamas]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/26/viktor-orban-associates-wealth-hungary-election

[Richard Hakluyt]

From the Guardian article :

"Other high-level figures connected to Fidesz are applying for US work visas, hoping to use their expertise in institutions linked to the Republican party, a US government source in Washington and a source inside Fidesz said."

The Maga Magyars, generously donating their time to help enhamce corruption in the USA.

[Valmy]

I demand the Republicans reserve corrupt government and institutional jobs for crooked Americans! Corrupt Americans First!

[Syt]

I didn't know that Orban is working with Johnny Vegas.

[Tamas]

I will have you know that that man is richer than the British royal family and he was a gas-fitter and mayor of Orbán's home village just 16 years ago.

[Syt]

Yeah, the article quotes Magyar as saying that in ten years he got ten times richer than the Royal Family in 400 years.

But just goes to show - you can still build wealth today even if you come from humble beginnings. Something something bootstraps.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Back in 1991, as the Soviet Union collapsed and Eastern Europe regained it's freedom, Hungary had one of the better Eastern European economies. The press called it "goulash communism" and it permitted more free enterprise than in other EE economies. As a consequence the Hungarian GDP per capita was double that of Poland's. Poland started catching up in the 1990s and 2000s but that process really accelerated in the past 10 to 15 years and now Poland is now about 20% ahead.

Corruption is one of the worse things that can happen to an economy it is very insidious. If Hungary had had better governance then, from her 1991 starting point, there is no reason for the country not to be up there with Slovenia and Czechia at essentially a western European level.

[Norgy]

Yeah, I remember Hungary being seen as something of a beacon along with Czechoslovakia. Poland's regime, particularly under Jaruszelski, had been very repressive. All three have lost some faith in the "Western dream", though, in different ways.

So has the former GDR, I'd say. Pure AfD country.