‘The time is here’: the ex-government insider shaking up Hungarian politics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/the-time-is-here-the-ex-government-insider-shaking-up-hungarian-politics

Until a few weeks ago, Péter Magyar was virtually unknown. Now, he is dominating conversations and headlines – and making the government of Hungary’s longtime prime minister, Viktor Orbán, deeply uncomfortable.

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downpunxx@fedia.io · 30 pts · 2y (1 reply)

keep this man away from both windows and tea

Humana@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
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HowRu68@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Some more background from this article : "Magyar has pitched himself as a centrist, focusing on domestic issues – combating corruption, improving healthcare, modernising the education system and aiming to unite Hungary’s highly polarised society. Magyar, by contrast, has said he is in favour of a foreign policy that protects Hungary’s sovereignty while maintaining a constructive relationship with the EU and Nato."

skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 2y (4 replies)

what does that "constructive relationship" mean

lurch@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 2y

I hope it means "not vetoing everything important". fingers crossed.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

Frankly, nearly anything would be better than the shit Orban has been pulling for fucking years

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

"Not actively antagonizing"

blackfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

It means he won't piss off the hard right

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Feels funny that the guy who's gonna try and save the country literally carries its people's endonym as his family name XD

HowRu68@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Yeah I saw that, but it was too bizar for me to accept it somehow.

IchLiebeKetchup@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

at this point I'm supportive of everyone who emerges left of Fidesz and is democratic