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Mercosul agreement...
It's a two sided agreement, products/goods (and perhaps services) can move back and forth. We only hear about the agricultural aspect of it, which I also noted. That aspect would not be bad if Europe handled agriculture better, farmers could compete. But from all the noise the political right (such as Orbán and co.) make it's hard to see the positives - if there are any - because there should be, duties/tariffs will be dropped for EU exports too.
So this article below says:
> EU exports are dominated by machinery, chemicals, transport equipment, textiles, and chocolate, while Mercosur largely sells agricultural goods, critical minerals and pulp. 
> European industry, notably machinery makers and producers of wine, cheese and spirits stand to benefit
These are the SouthAm products EU farmers fear:
> beef, ethanol, pork, honey, sugar, and poultry
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/5-things-to-make-sense-of-the-eumercosur-deal

Anyway, my impression is that the scaremongering that comes from the "Patriots" is more out of their role as the mouthpiece of Trump admin, than their worries about the farmers. In general they are an USAian Trojan horse.
Free trade for EU anywhere in the world is bad for US.
Matt of WillyOAM were staying in China for a week.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Y76LBjq6b50
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y76LBjq6b50
This video is not a full report in this, it's an intro essentially for a series of videos he wants to release.
I think one thing to consider that the mindset of the Chinese people in general is very different than a Westerner's or Hungarians or whoever. And the Chinese who still live there is more so. They have different filters how they view the world, how they think of things, what they consider "obvious".
When discussing a thing it is very important to have the same understanding of certain words. Things could mean very different for you and for me. I think lots of imageboard discussions fails for our nomenclature differs. Each word could summon a whole chain of associations, levels of meanings, abstract thoughts. For an American "bureaucracy" will mean something very different than for someone from the ex-Soviet Union.
Anyway. I'm looking forward to the rest of the material, and his thoughts.
 >>/55051/
In international relation theories, next to Realism, Liberalism, and Marxism, there is the Constructivism which asks exactly that: do we understand the other, do we know how he thinks and how he views the world. Do we judge their actions based on our understanding of the world or theirs? Do we get what they want and what they are telling us? How they view us? And for this we also have to understand how we do the same things.
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Reading this book: Overthrow - America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraw by Stephen Kinzer.
I don't think I'll go through it, it's almost as long as Lord of the Rings, except more exciting (despite we very well know how it ends...), but it is a very good complement to the previous books I talked about here, the US Foreign Policy in Perspective  >>/54223/ and Which Path to Persia  >>/54523/
Fourteen regime changes and their consequences in a very readable format, divided into three parts.
For now I'm only done with the "imperial" part, the beginnings of US imperialism, openly intervening for economic interests while claiming they are bringing civilization and freedom as the white man's burden to these barbaric childlike ungrateful non-nations. Hawaii, Cuba, Philippines, Guatemala, Honduras, and Puerto Rico. Ignorant arrogance and shortsightedness. Actions and consequences.
The second part is about the time of covert action, when the Cold War forced the US to appear less belligerent. The third is about the victorious US who finally as the global hegemon can act openly again. I'm looking forward to read these.
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Trump endorsing Orbán. Election on April 12, campaign in full force.
I think this post serves several purpose.
- First and foremost its a client maintenance, a cheap one, a good word costs nothing. Trump essentially advertises Orbán (and via him the Fidesz and the govt.).
- It's good for Orbán since opposition always questions his foreign support, and they often cite that Orbán is isolated, noone talks to him in international circles - govt. media can point it out again how he loved by the greatest of the greatests.
- Trump also signals to other clients that Orbán and co. is an accepted client by them.
- And this is also a warn off in case of foreign meddling: don't fuck with the regime that serves us well. We have constant news in govt media about how Kiev meddles and the opposition candidates are the men of Brussels and Zelensky.
- Orbán and co. also can spin this as the proof of unwavering support of the White House and that America will help if we run into economical problems. They were talking about this "financial shield" that we can rely on if the EU moneytap runs dry. Washington denied the existence of this.
Will this move undecided voters? I doubt it. It's just another part of the circus.
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As noted above we're gonna have election in April. I was looking around for voter preferences, I really have no idea these days where to find such, but came across picrel on this site:
https://partpreferencia.hu/

To sum it up:
Essentially 5 parties has any level of chance to get into the parliament. Reps can be elected directly from constituencies and through party lists but party lists has a 5% threshold. So as a "full" party only 3 has a real chance.
The variation in the result - some pollster predicts Fidesz others the Tisza will win confidently - is probably due to political bias. I've no idea which pollster is in the pocket of which party.
The parties that contest for the 199 seats:
Fidesz-KDNP - the ruling party, for 15 years, Orbán and co.
TISZA - the collector of opposition voters, led by Magyar Péter
DK - remnants of the old socialists, MSZP
Mi Hazánk - right radical opposition, the succession: MIÉP -> Jobbik -> Mi Hazánk
MKKP - the joke party, or as started such

So. Restricting it only for sure voters.
Fidesz might get 40-50%
Tisza might get 40-50%
Mi Hazánk will get in, but remains a small party
DK and MKKP probably won't get in, perhaps they'll get couple of reps from the constituencies

The system favors the winner, it's easy to get lots of seats and even 2/3 depending. In 2022 the Fidesz won 2/3 wit a 52% (constituency) and 54% (party list) result. I don't expect this good result from either parties.
Weirdly enough even the most optimistic prognosis towards the Fidesz claims 51%. The most pessimistic 33%. This is a wide difference.
As for Tisza the variation is between 39-53. This one is tighter, but still.
We can conclude that there is no sure indicator who will win. The pollsters will keep this trend up and their biases because they are part of the circus. Last time all of them predicted big win from the opposition just before the election, even the Fidesz polling and whatever companies. I think they wanted to scare those who hates the leftlibs to go and vote for Fidesz.
Not sure what's the script this time.
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So, terrorism is a serious thang. Our government takes it seriously too, we subscribe to various terrorist group lists, international organizations such as EU and UN regulates. These are essentially sanction lists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisations_designated_as_terrorist_by_the_European_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups
Last year we decided to create our own national list as big boys such as the US has one, and at that time the Trump administration got mad at the "antifa" and put them on their list. True tho that couple years ago some Italian tards who call themselves antifa came to Hungary to "combat fascism" by beating up some pedestrians and now one of these is sitting in the EU parliament now ofc, that wasn't really nice and the definition of "terrorism" is pliable enough to call them such.
Today I got curious what organizations are considered terrorist on the Hungary. I heard we have a list, The List, so I duckduckwent it. And I found the decree in Magyar Közlöny (Hungarian Journal/Bulletin), the official newspaper they publish every new laws our Parliament legislates and every new decree our govt enacts - searchable on this website: https://magyarkozlony.hu/
Teh Hungarian text can be found in pdf related under 456/2025 decree. So who are on the list? Well I scrolled down to find this:
1. "ANTIFA" groupings
2. Hammerbande / Antifa Ost
That's it.
Really. They managed to make a list of 2 items, consisting of a thing and a subsection of the same thing. Which is a list of one (1) item. Which isn't really a list.

All right I found something else tho.
https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2025-456-20-22
This also lists something that's called "Vulkangruppe". Found the amending decree in second pdf related at 4/2026, it talks about some attack in Berlin against civilian infrastructure. So:
3. Vulkangruppe
The list just grows on!

I wonder what would I actually find if I'd looked these up.
Just discovered this: European Democracy Shield
series of concrete measures to empower, protect, and promote strong and resilient democracies across the EU
measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems:
- free people
- free and fair elections
- free and independent media
- a vibrant civil society
- strong democratic institutions
to withstand evolving common threats, in particular foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) and disinformation
Three Pillars
1. Safeguarding the integrity of the information space
Code of Conduct on Disinformation and prepare a Digital Services Act incidents and crisis protocol to facilitate coordination among relevant authorities and ensure swift reactions to large-scale and potentially transnational information operations.
independent European Network of Fact-Checkers
European Digital Media Observatory [...] monitoring and analytical capabilities
2. Strengthening our institutions, fair and free elections, and free and independent media
European Cooperation Network on Elections [...] for the integrity of electoral processes
guidance on the responsible use of AI in electoral processes
Recommendation and a guide of best practices in the Member States on the safety of political actors.
financial support for independent and local journalism [...] under the new Media Resilience Programme
Audiovisual Media Services Directive
Commission's Recommendation on the Safety of Journalists
combat abusive lawsuits against public participation
3. Boosting societal resilience and citizens' engagement
to help recognise and counter information manipulation [...] media and digital literacy for all ages.
citizenship education in schools.
participatory and consultative tools, with a focus on local levels and youth
participation in democracy via a new civic tech hub.
EU democracy guide.
help further promote evidence-based decision-making, [...] Recommendation on supporting scientific evidence in policymaking
Three Objectives
1. Fostering engagement: A new Civil Society Platform
2. Support and protection: An online Knowledge Hub on Civic Space
3. Sustainable and transparent funding: €9 billion foreseen for the AgoraEU programme
https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/news/european-democracy-shield-and-eu-strategy-civil-society-pave-way-stronger-and-more-resilient-2025-11-12_en

Very nice words.
Translation: limiting free speech, banning competitors, surveil parties and voters.
The fun part is that those who they want to use against this parties on the right, eg FN and AfD just to mention the largest ones would use it without hesitation against these one now in power. The genie that won't go back into the bottle.
Great future to look forward to.
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US Supreme Court decided against Trump's tariffs - at least on those that were imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs. So in theory these are sunk for now. They said it's within the authority of the Congress. So They have to beat these through the legislation, if they want 'em.
Important:
The tariffs decision doesn’t stop Trump from imposing duties under other laws. While those have more limitations on the speed and severity of Trump’s actions, top administration officials have said they expect to keep the tariff framework in place under other authorities.
In the media (Hungarian opposition media too) this shows up as a fanfare that they defeated Trump. It seems it's more like a speedbump for now. Have to figure out other legal bases, and ofc get the Congress to issue them, if they can. Midterms will be important.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-tariffs-trump-0485fcda30a7310501123e4931dba3f9

> picrel
> exempt
Hmmmmm
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What makes a great power?
Listening this:
Russia - Ukraine - Trump, and What's Next for NATO by Pyotr Kurzin, James Ker-Lindsay and Michael Rossi
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=T-P1UR6Reeg
https://youtube.com/watch?v=T-P1UR6Reeg

Almost 2 and a half hour of chitchat about the things of the world everyone talks about. At about 1 hour 30 it comes up if Russia is a great power. James made a video about that topic and users commented that Russia has a great nuclear arsenal. See vidrel.
His conclusion is no.
But he says something that he should consider more, that NATO can't invade Russia.
Which is fuckhuge important. Nukes protect sovereignty in a level that conventional arms can't.
The Hungarian election train chugs on.
Again, either Fidesz or Tisza govt, for third I'm almost sure the Mi Hazánk gets in, and perhaps the DK.
Heard Mi Hazánk is planning to be a decisive factor, a possible coalition partner. I think they overestimate their importance - it's a campaign tactic I think, no way they don't see the reality. Which is:
1. neither parties would accept them as coalition partner
2. our patron (US) would not accept them as coalition partner
3. the election system is done in a way, that the winner get win a lot with relative ease, so no need for coalition partner.

But we'll see what we see when we see.
Browsing Politico to see what they write about the Orbán €90 billion veto. I found this:
https://www.politico.eu/article/from-hitler-pinocchio-germany-speech-laws-collide-satire-banned-symbols/
German authorities abusing citizens for online "extremism".
> The cases highlight a tension at the heart of Germany’s postwar legal order: how to guard against extremism without restricting free expression.
By not being an utter mong and make half-good decisions so the masses won't get radicalized? They don't get radicalized just by online memery. Jesus.
In Germany people are pissed because the economy is going down the shitter while the country is flooded by half-savage ficki-ficki gangs while the govt hypocritically cherrypicks which war crimes can be called out and which isn't.
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Not the article what I was looking for but it will suit.
https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-hungary-lure-eu-into-a-trap/
As co-chair of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Anti-Corruption, Ridel picrel has been an impassioned critic of Orbán and she argues that if he does pull off another election win next month, then the EU should withhold all EU funds for Hungary to punish it for democratic backsliding and explore the nuclear option of stripping an Orbán-led Hungary of its EU voting rights. 
> If I don't like whom people elect, that's a democratic backsliding
> it's only democracy if I like the winner

> persuade swing voters
There aren't really swing voters in the country. It's not like the US.
There were voters whom they voted on different parties on each election, but now we have the ones who want the Fidesz gone, the ones who want the Fidesz stay, and the last third is a colorful group:
- the 5% Mi Hazánk voters
- some old socialists, voting DK
- some old commies and young anarchists voting Workers Party (like all ten people)
- potheads and assorted who votes the joke party KKP, partially for out of alternatives and seek some sort of honesty
- those who got enough politics and rather not look at it
- those who are into politics but reject all the parties as shit or for other reasons
- those who are too dumb for politics
- and lastly those who can be dragged to vote by scaring them the liberals coming back if they don't vote on the Fidesz.
So there are no "swing" voters who can't decide if they want the Fidesz gone or not.
Latest election circus.
I think the Washington Post aired the news that our Foreign Minister called Lavrov and others after EU meetings to inform them about decisions and whatnot. At least this article on Politico:
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-foreign-minister-talks-russia-eu-meetings/
cites this article at WP:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/21/hungary-election-interference-russia-orban/
Which I don't get because the title and summary says the Kremlin proposed staged assassination attempt against Orbán - and I can't read the rest of the paywalled article.
Anyway.
Our FM says this is perfectly normal and he calls many partners because this what foreign politics is about.

For the follow up I don't think there is an English source, because this part is related to the election. Now the Fidesz says that a Hungarian journalist helped foreign intelligence agencies to wiretap our FM and that this is a scandal.
So there is a scandal and they launched a counter-scandal.
Noone ever will be hold responsible, but first and foremost we will never know the truth, including what information he shared or is this common not just with him, but with other foreign ministers, how and whom they communicate with - because we aren't in these circles and we have no idea how the sausage is made.
But this is a good loud noise, everyone gets their fair amount of weekly indignation. They don't even remember last week's outrage.
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I was curious what Szijjártó and Lavrov  were talking about and a conversation was published, so I tried to look it up. I was searching for a transcript and went on the "articles pointing at each other" roundtrip. Finally I found this:
> Hotline Kremlin
https://vsquare.org/kremlin-hotline-hungary-colluded-with-russia-to-delist-sanctioned-oligarchs-companies-and-banks/
They actually embed a video with the sound recording (and subtitles for their wacky English accent). I dl'd and uploading in webm related. One and a half minute, summary: Lavrov asks what was done about the sanction of some oligarch's wife.
I yet to read this article, quite long, we'll see the weight of it.
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This article by RUSI has some munition depletion estimates.
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/over-11000-munitions-16-days-iran-war-command-reload-governs-endurance

Article is dated to March 24th. By today according to RUSI Israel should be out of Arrow AA missiles and and "Partner operated/Allied" (I assume Gulf states) THAAD munitions are gone.
Vance visited the Hungary, arrived yesterday. White House has two videos on their yt channel:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=1mkWhHLxJmA
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1mkWhHLxJmA
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=F53sdPTvPBE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F53sdPTvPBE
Listening them now, so the only thing: Vance today been at some gathering a held the MTK stadium. MTK is a sport club, notable for their football team, one of the old traditional clubs. A traditional Jewish club.
Tomorrow election day. The campaign still rumbling on. Today's scandal: some musicians (rappers?) during performance said that the Fidesz can suck his dick.
How horrible, every talking head is deeply indignant.

The Szájer isn't even the Fidesz anymore tho. Really makes you think.
Voting started at 7:00 Felcsút Time. By 8:00 ~3,5% of the voters were done.

 >>/55265/
No, he has no such tools.
I think they did what they were able to stack the deck, but the result of this election is still questionable - at least for outside spectators such as voters and me.
But for Orbán and Co. it is good to have an opposition which at least seems competitive. They can deny the allegations of dictatorship and can claim legitimate democratic basis for their authority (the will of the people in free elections).
Checking, by this time only 40% voted. The turnover could be greater than ever. Highest one was 70,5% in 2002, the last two in 2018 and 2022 was almost 70%.
I wonder if they could pump voters to 75%.
Now Magyar Péter talks.
Says historical day, 20 years after the referendum about joining the EU. Notes the turnout record. Hungarians felt how important this election is. This is the celebration of democracy. He asks patience from everyone for now. And thanks the all volunteers who helped all over the country - this is an authoritarian non-working country so they needed. The got reports of many thousands election frauds, and these will be examined and the criminals will go to jail.
Uhh. I phased out halfway in, perhaps I'll listen tomorrow again
Now Torockai of the Mi Hazánk party talks.
He said the they are the only group that wasn't washed away by the Tisza (it's the name of the river too), since they kept what they had, while the Fidesz lost bigly. He congratulated to the Facebook and the globalists in the Silicon Valley standing behind the Tisza. He expects the democracy degrading further. Eventually the Mi Hazánk will defeat the Tisza eventually.
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Until then, an interesting sidenote.
From all the pollsters only one calculated accurately. The Medián came to the conclusion that the Tisza will win with 2/3. All the rest said either party will win with some majority but nowhere was close to this. They also predicted well that the Mi Hazánk will gain mandates, but no other parties - except they expected one ethnic Gypsy candidate to get in.
What I think is that they weren't accurate. They were the ones who got lucky. I listened an interview today with the owner/director of this particular pollster and they asked how they measured it, and there was nothing particularly different in the explanation. The dude sounded genuinely surprised too and embarrassed that he can't give an explanation for their bullseye.
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Promised something beefy. Let's start and see where it goes.

Summary of the election in numbers - minor changes are expected, perhaps when I post this, the numbers will be incorrect already, but still close enough.
Extraordinary turnout, clocked 79,55%.
For now it seems Tisza gains 136, the Fidesz 57, and the Mi Hazánk 6 seats in the Parliament.
Really interesting how these mandates are distributed. From party lists they got 44 - 43 - 6, but the major difference comes from the constituencies, where they elect candidates on the basis of simple plurality. So the candidate with the highest amount of votes wins. And the Tisza could reap 92 seats from all over the country.
The election system the Fidesz created heavily favors the winner. A very slim win can result in a stable majority, and a confident win in a supermajority (2/3). In previous elections this favored the Fidesz, on Sunday it caused them to lose bigly. But shouldn't overestimate the Tisza's overwhelming majority in seats, they got support from the 52% and change of the voters. Some celebrate how all the Hungarians finally woke up, this is a bit of a stretch, that 2.3 million Fidesz voter would had been enough in the circumstances of previous elections, so we can't ignore them.
What I wrote here:  >>/55193/ still stands.

One note: in EU countries the winners of elections have hard time forming governments in recent years, and then they create weak coalitions that crack easily. Probably their electoral system can be blamed. So if one considers strong, stable governments a good thing, then the Hungarian one delivers.
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Why could Tisza win? And why they could this big?
I did not expected this result, I literally told everyone the Fidesz will win.
The Tisza is a catch-all party that collected the voters of the leftlib after all their parties imploded - and those conservatives who got enough of the Fidesz. But not just the voters, but all the backers of the leftlib parties stood behind it too, those who push the money, their media, their experts. I thought people still so indignant about the leftliberals that they don't want to see them back. I think I miscalculated how they managed to hide in plain sight.
Everyone knows here that the Fidesz became this oligarch embezzling mafia, corrupt and fat, like its leader. But in previous elections the choice was them or those other corrupt, lazy, and talentless hack socialists and liberals. But by today all the old faces and names disappeared. Now it was the choice between the corrupt Fidesz and what the majority percieved as a breath of fresh air.
I do not believe that the campaign program of the Tisza mattered much. Basically they promised that they do better what the Fidesz was doing already, and they will do some more things that the Fidesz is not doing, and that they'll maintain good relations with EU and NATO unlike the Fidesz. So basically they had a populist program that promised everyone everything.
The high turnout was another component. The Fidesz got lotsa votes, but the Tisza got even more. Those who were mobilized all went to remove them.
"Electoral fatigue" perhaps is the keyword, I listened the latest podcast Michael Rossi participated in and this was the term he used. Basically people wanted a different populist from the populists they were tired of.

About the large number of votes that normally could have guaranteed a slim victory.
Despite the country seems to go nowhere, stagnating, many live quite all right and they are fine in this lukewarm puddle we soak our arses in surprisingly I know quite a few people who live comfortably and supported the Tisza, and there are quite a few people whose livelihood literally depends on the Fidesz being in power. And many got scared by the constant fearmongering the Fidesz produced since the start of 2024.
So it's not like the Fidesz is imploding like the old opposition, they are fine at the moment.
Another thought. This will sound like some conspiracy theory, but actually this is how things work.
These democratic systems in the American client countries are controlled to some extent. They create fake issues to devide the citizens and a handful of patron approved participants are promoted to vote on. They aren't really opponents of each other, the politicians that is - you can bet your arse some of the voters could kill each other over these issues. The media has key role in manipulating voters, this was true in pre-social media times, but now that grows into a real tool of manipulation.
Almost everyone is monitored these days 24/7. Smart-electronics: phones, watches, tvs, and literally everything in the internet of things collects data about the people and pass it to the Big Five and from there to US govt. They create psychological analysis and profiles of the population. As individuals and as a group as well. And the marketing of consumer goods is literally the same as political parties'.
The US is continuously doing client maintenance, routinely, and from the information they gain by surveillance, they can figure out if they need to nudge an election into one direction or the other - as part of the maintenance. Orbán and Co. had the steering wheel for four times in a row since 2010. They also built up a narrative that they couldn't detach themselves anymore, can't do anything else even if such is expected from them. So maybe Magyar Péter and Co. seemed like a more flexible leadership. Or perhaps they just wanted to clear the air before bringing back the Fidesz, letting someone else to the helm for a bit (perhaps snap election later this year). In a democracy it is unhealthy to have one leadership for a long time.
I'm fairly sure Vance came to Budapest to tell Orbán he'll lose this time. Orbán lobbied for support in the US govt, but he can't get it what he wanted - on the other hand he had to give what the US wanted (they did sign some deals).
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What does this election means for the future?
Unsure.

The Tisza promised a big housecleaning. They have the power to change the constitution (they have the power to mangle it or create a new one) and they have the legitimization to do legally questionable things as well, sidestepping certain norms.
Magyar Péter said things that may temper some (foreign) expectations. He said he doesn't want Ukraine to join EU in the near future. He said we still keep buying Russian oil. He said we still won't be part of taking the €90 billion loan on - tho he won't prevent it, but in return we need the EU gibsmedats.
They'll probably took out some parts form the constitution about hetero marriage and God and Jesus or soemthing. Tho recently I head some promises that nothing such will happen.

They gonna have problems.
The economy ain't doing good and the EU gibsmedats won't help much. They will learn what numbers they can work with, and what numbers and where they can change to appear they are doing something. There will be tight constraints. They can't just kick the bucket over everywhere, lots of people can lose their homes and could go bankrupt. Unless that's the plan of those above them.
There are too many masters to serve as well. Their voterbase is too colorful with different expectations. There will be tasks to be done given by their silent backers. They have to do the bidding of EPP which the Tisza member of. They have to conform to whatever the EU Council says. They have to keep up with Washington's demands. They can't just get rid of China and the existing deals and contracts. And they won't get rid of Russian energy apparently - important to note: it's not just gas and oil, but nuclear too.
On local level in the municipalities the Fidesz holds the majority at many places. Not in Budapest of course, but in the country all over.
And the Fidesz stacked all the offices with their own loyal aparatchiks. They will hamper the machine, but can Tisza get rid of them? Do they have the cadre to fill enough places?
Magyar Péter gave some interviews and statements but only had time to listen one. And that wasn't any good to be honest.
I know they (both opposition and Fidesz media, and Western media too) builds up the "tough negotiation expected" narrative, but I think the EU Commission will just give the money to the Tisza govt. to let them have a win to strenghten their position in the eyes of the voters, and keep the narrative.

I also should have give a listen to Orbán's latest interview, but did not. The only thing I caught is that they want a restructuring and a youthification of Fidesz. They'll boot some from the ranks. I suspect these will get investigated by the Magyar govt's iron fist for corruption.
Ah, Orbán also said he did not allow any corruption to happen. Löl.

What I don't expect is getting rid of corruption. I believe the Tisza will have to conform to expectations and constraints, but beyond they will stuff the pockets of their pals as customary. And since Magyar Péter engaged in corruption with Orbán's straw owner/Strohmann together, we can be sure he will stuff his own pockets with tax and EU money.

I might add stuff later. I don't really want to dwell on this, but sometimes I hear something ridiculous or important. Can't exclude the possibility.
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> So basically they had a populist program that promised everyone everything.
Sounds like they'll eat their own voting base from having to choose between incompatible promises and assign their enforcement to an unhelpful Orbanist bureaucracy.
News from Bulgaria. Does this mean from now on Bulgaria gets the role of the vetoer?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/bulgarias-former-president-radev-wins-election-all-you-need-to-know
Although he publicly condemned Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, he has also opposed providing military support to Ukraine and called, instead, for renewed, “practical relations with Russia based on mutual respect and equal treatment”.
He has also called for the resumption of Russian imports to Europe, despite EU sanctions on Russian oil
Following his victory, he told reporters: “A strong Bulgaria and a strong Europe need critical thinking and pragmatism. Europe has fallen victim to its own ambition to be a moral leader in a world with new rules.”
And news from US: companies now can seek compensation from US Govt for Trump's tariffs. 
https://apnews.com/article/tariff-refund-trump-customs-08861f153801156d213c30c4e2f6a683
Customs and Border Protection said in court filings that over 330,000 importers paid a total of about $166 billion on over 53 million shipments.
Not all of those orders qualify for the first phase of the refund system’s rollout, which is limited to cases in which tariffs were estimated but not finalized or within 80 days of a final accounting.
To receive refunds, importers have to register for the CPB’s electronic payment system. As of April 14, 56,497 importers had completed registration and were eligible for refunds totaling $127 billion, including interest, the agency said.
Back to politics. Actually the news. It's all over probably haven't checked, seen DPA's video about it.
There was some event with Trump and Vance and whole White House staff and other guests and whoever, gunmen run into the place, and got shot.
What did he want to achive I dunno.
Apparently some bloke from California, with fresh masters degree in IT decided to go to Washington for the event, to die essentially. He had several guns apparently. Even if he had achieved anything they would have killed him anyway.
How? Why? Makes no sense.

Also Trump should not be touched, he needs to get humiliated. He needs to fall from grace.
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Meanwhile Hungarian politics.

Orbán won't take his seat in the Parliament. He said he'll "reform the national side", and that the Fidesz needs the younger generation. I assume they'll stuff their group in the legislation with as many new faces as they can so voters can get use to them.

New legislation and government forms on this Saturday.
Minister of Justice: brother-in-law of the new PM
Minister of Education: LGBT warrior
Minister of Energy: Global Executive Vice President of Shell 
I think the rest isn't that suspicious/controversial picks.

In theory they won't support Ukraine's fast track EU membership, and still want to buy energy from Russia. They want to keep migration politics - the fence too.
They promise justice and the liquidation of corruption. They promise they'll bring the EU gibsmedats home.
They'll surely allow gay marriage and some stuff. Surely will promote degeneracy to kids.
They are contemplating the introduction of the Euro we'll be buggered properly if they do it.
I expect more surveillance - EU pushes it hard. And sometimes we get that antisemitism law (have to check, perhaps they already enacted it).

The global economy might shake our economy. EU is in a precarious situation.
I dunno. I don't expect anything good.
He referred to our first PM of the third Hungarian Republic, Antall József, couple of times, because they try to put this as a regime change.
Very nice empty phrases.
Oh yeah he literally said it, regime change.
Lots of blame on Orbán, but he mentions the "Gyurcsány-Orbán Era" - suggesting they are closing this now. Lotsa accusations. But basically this is what their voters want to hear: how Orbán fucked up the country.
He also lashes out at the opposition that wanted to save their political career.
He said they'll introduce a "national wealth recovery" law. Almost that rhythmical Stalinist applause followed, they started except he begin to talk. They will create an office to make this happen, to review how various funds, from tax to EU gibsmedats, were spent. This is another thing their voters wanna hear, keeping the thief Orbán accountable. Or at least whom they can catch for embezzlement and such. And they started that rhythmic clapping again.
Oh, the system of "breaks and counterpoise". That this was degraded and has to be rebuilt.
He called upon our Head of State, President Sulyok Tamás to resign. They want to elect their own President. In the name of the unification of the nation.

Ah, I have stuff to do, perhaps I'll listen the rest sometimes, surely it'll be up on youtube.

To close this post:
He speaks bad. His tone, intonation is awful, reminds me of a sermon.
Also this speech reminds me the testimony of Pelikán in the film, Tanu, when he has to tell his part with sizzling accusation. And that he didn't know he'll meet frogmen.


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