Hungarian General Election 2026

"Tells the EU to keep their migrants"

And countries all over Europe and the UK absolutely full of Hungarians 🤣

He's a two faced hypocrite and a coward who knows he desperately needs the EU.

lol pretty sad for an Irish person (with presumably zero intention of actually going to walk their talk and live in Hungary under Orbán's rule) to post a message in support of such a corrupt wannabe dictator and friend of Putin's Russia.

What? Bit of a curve ball/non sequitur.

The Hungarian veto in the EU has been on offer to foreign powers for years now, mostly Putin & Russia but also Trump's US, and China. Who does that serve in the other EU member states? Or even in Hungary itself most of the time?

He regularly frustrates otherwise unanimous decisions by the European Council, which weakens and undermines not just the EU but all of the other members.

He has turned Hungary into an autocracy, afaik it doesn't reach several of the criteria for membership of the EU any longer as regards quality of its democracy, and that is shameful.

Corruption in Hungary wastes the money of countries that contribute to the EU budget incl. Ireland. Even if you don't really care or even approve, well it is not just your money and there's an opportunity cost everyone else suffers and has to bear.

For a person from another EU member state who is not Hungarian and not somehow making out well themselves from a connection to the Orbán govt. to post in support of him + "hope" he gets re-elected again is just pretty f-cking stupid.

Even if you agree with his brand of right wing politics, stances on migration etc. and that is why you posted it, it is still serious cut off your nose to spite your face stuff.

The EU aren't interfering in elections either. Orban is a huge supporter of Putin over the years though who is known for interfering in elections globally.

Why doesn't Orban hold a referendum on leaving the EU seeing as its so bad for Hungary apparently.

Orban supports Putin. Putin interferes in other countries elections.

Have you any proof of the EU doing so, outside of your own fevered imagination?

I worked a lot in Budapest in 2024 and 2025 as I live in a bordering country.

Everyone there I spoke to is praying Orban loses

We have to choose between real flawed candidates, not imaginary perfect ones.

If you think migration and the culture wars are the most important issues we face (and they are) it makes perfect sense to hope Orban wins, regardless of whether he's corrupt or not.

Orban has always been a supporter of Putin who is responsible for the current refugee crisis. In fact Putin has contributed to lots of situations that have resulted in such crises. So he's a hell of a lot more than a flawed candidate, he's a bad actor and has been for years.

Europe doesn’t have a concrete plan, they make emotional decisions. Look at Germany closing nuclear power plants, being reliant on Russian gas., letting in a million migrants from the Middle East. They were warned these were dumb and shortsighted decisions.

Orban is using his veto to block things he is against and using it as leverage to get concessions. It ruffles feathers but we should have vetoed the importing of meats with lower safety standards form South America. Brussels is full of lobbyists throwing money at bent politicians to bring in regulations to keep small businesses from the market.

You're setting up a false dilemma there.

I really, really doubt Orbán's opponent is going to throw open floodgates to non EU immigrants to Hungary, put new signs up on the women's toilets around the land and make everyone hoist the rainbow flag.

I suppose if you don't care about democracy so long as a leader does and says the things you like, and you don't care if leadership of your country is completely bent and will also sell your nation (and others) out to foreigners to line their own pocket(s), fair enough. You claiming "migration" and "culture wars" are the most important issue facing every society like it is an axiom doesn't make it correct.

Migration from outside the EU can be controlled by national politicians if they want.

If you lose your democracy (we'll see what happens after this election in Hungary - sadly I don't think Orbán is going anywhere no matter the result) and corruption starts to become embedded up and down all levels of society as "the way things are done", it's often very hard to reverse that.

Why should he do that, rather than try to change it? Thankfully the EU is not (yet) a 'take it or leave it' proposition, though I'm sure many of its institutions and proponents would prefer that.

Exactly. The Irish clowns expressing support for Orban would have a fit if Micheal Martin did even 1% of Orban's corruption.