A comparison of Peter Magyar’s and Viktor Orban’s touring of the country before the election.
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Posted by farkas37
A comparison of Peter Magyar’s and Viktor Orban’s touring of the country before the election.
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Posted by farkas37
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Orban seems a bit tired himself of this shit.
You know, this almost feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy – Fidesz not believing they can win, so not doing much touring, so their own voters are rallied less and therefore actually don’t vote
I’ll break a lance for Orban here: as president he was busy so it makes sense he wouldn’t make as many tours as the opposition candidate.
A better comparison, perhaps, would be with his previous tours
I think this was probably the only way to overcome the media advantage that Orban’s party had.
And a few words to my European friends:
If you are still cynical about how much of an improvement Magyar is, I understand. However the majority of his party are activists, not career politicians. His supporters voted not for him, but for regime change. While I may have my doubts about Magyar myself, I trust in Tisza to steer him in the right direction.
16 years of Orban rule and total media control will take time to fix, but one thing he tried and failed to do in those years was turning Hungary against Europe. We are back! 🇪🇺
They just switched from one villain to another… I have exactly zero positive expectations
This is also about physical capabilities. Magyar did like 5 to 7 rallies a day, which is insane even for a young and fit man. For an old couch potato like Orban, even half that would have been a lot to ask.
Obviously Orban was to busy licking Putin ass.
62 aint a touring age im afraid.
people talk about regime change and democracy won lol delusional like when the americans vote for democrats instead of republicans
Orban literally fucked up. He could have ruled longer.
I am not European, I am Australian. But this seems like a positive for Hungary, even if I do not know much about the candidates policies. In our country we can just keep electing the same party and there are not term limits. But when one PERSON gains too much power it can be a good idea to switch them out. At least, from the very little I know of what is going on in Hungary (I must once again emphasise how Australian I am, it is hot and slow down here) it seems like this could be good.
Or, at least, I hope it is a good for all of y’all. Must have been weird having a US vice president come and tell yoi who to vote for. Or, at least, it would be weird here.
I dunno but from an outside perspective it looks like a tired old man. An annoying old man with shitty politics.
Yo Pete Hungarian is the Hungarian president
Posts on Facebook are full of bots decrying this and making the usual dog whistles. Putin must be *pissed off*.
This is how you can win against any wanna-be dictator: political actions, more and more rallies, unite everyone you can behind you, instead of lazy talking points like “he obviously nazi, vote for me, bye”
They were also screening the audience for the latter to avoid protesters and difficult topics. If you weren’t a fan you had little chance to get close and if you try to shout something that put him in a bad light dudes in black clothes would appear around you and make you leave.
I want a European Union with only real European countries.
Hard to overstate how badly ran Orban’s campaign was. They had basically zero announced program, just assumed that they will continue whatever the fuck they did before. They had absolutely no control over the public narrative, if they tried to run a story it was shot down almost immediately. Their propaganda made up AI bullshit that was almost always rebuked, they gained no traction.
Their entire campaign was about making as much of a public divide, hate, and fearmongering.
While I do not trust Magyar I really hope his party can bring the reform to have a true democracy in hungary
Magyar’s touring of Hungary was at the same time a public speaking bootcamp for him. He also visited about 700 towns and villages, and on some days, he visited 6-7 places in ONE DAY, and some villages he visited 5-6 times in 2 years. He did this to udnerstand his people better, and wee their challenges.
He knew it was over very early on. Which kind of makes you wonder what he has planned for the coming weeks/months. I doubt he’s waiting to be arrested anyway. Either he exiles to Russia or… well… I can’t imagine a coup would work with the support Tisza has right now.
Maybe just plain old terrorism blamed on the left, like that supposed bomb threat in Serbia?
This tells really everything.
Someone send a link to Orban’s campaign HQ.
Worth noting that some more dense dots make a line from the middle (Budapest) to the eastern border – showing the stops when Peter Magyar walked (!) through the country to Transylvania (in Romania).
Orban is too heavy, they had to use special trailer for horses to haul him around the country. And it takes a budget of a whole small city just to feed him for 1 week, so that’s why such difference