Iván Merker
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Iván Merker
@merker_ivan
L’enfant de TGM et de Club Mate Cola // lefty Hungarian and not depressed about it // doing politics @szikramozgalom
Budapest 🇭🇺 Katılım Kasım 2022
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@ZoltnGborSzcs1 ...(b) for the second time in 40 years a party ends up in power from literally nowhere in two years. In that case, you end up working with people you know and trust, so close friends and even family members.
And I can joke about Antall but SZDSZ had both dynamics.
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@ZoltnGborSzcs1 Family member or loyal party cadre nepotism?
I think in the Hungarian case is special because (a) if you start a party with your university friends you end up with your university friends being the other leading politicians in your party and...
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He is also a member of the new Parliament and the legal director of the party. Imho, it is at least as interesting that this important cabinet position goes to a loyal party cadre instead of a well-respected expert-figure (like Kapitány) as is his family connections to Magyar.
Viktória Serdült@viktoriaserdult
Hungary’s future PM, Peter Magyar, faces his first major criticism after appointing his brother-in-law, Márton Melléthei-Barna, as justice minister (R). Melléthei has been a close friend since uni and married Magyar’s sister, a judge in 2025. She suspended her judicial duties.
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@ShaqAram The Hungarians in Ukraine that no longer are, you mean? I bet they really loved living in Ukraine.
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Big news: the president of Ukraine barely has any issues with Russia. I bet this news article from 2019 is 100% true and Zelenszkij isn't playing politics!
Paul Shapoval@Frialum
Ukrainian Hungarians publicly stated that they don’t have any issues with their rights in Ukraine. Mayor of Berehove reiterated this just yesterday
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@ZoltnGborSzcs1 The first one is called Earl Attlee, go figure how ancient that earldom is.
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I might be wrong but it seems to me that not only the noble families existed in the past but all the other families too.
Robert Tyler 🇺🇦🇮🇱@RGTyler
So much lost experience. So much lost history. Some of these families have been there for centuries.
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@ShaqAram Most azon túl hogy Benett pár éve a legszélsőbb jobb volt csak azóta Netanjahu rátalált a kahanitákra és arrébb ment az Overton-ablak, azért bárcsak igaza lenne és Ahmad Tibi kerülhetne kormányra.
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Egy igazi vibráló demokrácia a közel-keleten ahol olyan szuper érveket láthatunk hogy "az ellenfelem egy arab. ARAB!"
Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו@netanyahu
מורידים את המסכות
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@Nassreddin2002 Starmer and Bolojan being A-tier while Zelenskyy is C is soo weird.
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What makes you put Ulf Kristersson in S-tier? What has he done? Only 16% of Swedes have him as preferred PM lmao
Roman 🇪🇺🏳️🌈@Rx410
My global leaders ranking:
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Who’s gonna tell him that he’ll never be able to vote for the Dutch PvdA
DJ Branham 🗽@DJBranham
Who'd I vote for in Europe
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@jakabkuczogi Meg hogy miből rakta tele a hülye plakátjaival a választókerület minden második lámpaoszlopát!
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@h_david_baer Magyar follows the old tradition of referring to clearly contradictory Hungarian historical figures (Kossuth vs. Wekerle) as precedents. It is like SZDSZ claiming the heritage of Eötvös and Kéthly.
And the common thread here is conservative liberalism and/or populist third-way.
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Magyar ran on the spirit of 1848. Constantly quoted Petőfi, Kossuth and appealed to Hungary’s liberal traditions. Anyone who doesn’t see this is either on Orban’s payroll or doesn’t know Hungarian or both.
Rod Dreher@roddreher
Yeah, if you say so. Magyar is a right-winger ran on Orban's policies on Ukraine and migration (but was more to the right than Orban!), the two biggest bones in Brussels's throat. He beat Orban fair and square. Ppl who see this as a victory for EU neoliberalism are bonkers.
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@glegry And these things accelerated in the last term, if anything same with NER wealth accumulation.
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@glegry Yeah I think if there is an encapsulation of why Fidesz failed, it is that during a cost of living crisis they spent billions on third-rate US postliberals to tweet on them.
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The funniest aspect of how intensely and emotionally the fate of the Budapest-based post-liberals is debated here is how invisible these guys were in the broader Hungarian landscape. Only this post-mortem discussion makes clear how significant they thought to be.
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@istvan_szilard @BungaCast Didn’t realise you went on Bungacast but time to give it a listen. And yes, Americanisation of Fidesz was a major issue, especially as Orbán is not a Trump-like character.
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We've seen a path to victory throughout the campaign - says the Fidesz campaign chief. Irrespective of its content: no Hungarian talks like this, this "path" thing is US election lingo. As I pointed out in @BungaCast USmania just devoured the minds of many in Fidesz
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@DanoGB77 @viktoriaserdult Nem. Mind az új körzetekben érintett helyeken (Fehérvár környéke, Budapest, Pest, Csongrád), mint az aránytalanul sok körzeted megyékben (Somogy, Tolna) tarol a Tisza.
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@viktoriaserdult Kekebb lenne a terkep vajon ha 2022es valasztokeruletek lettek volna most is?
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To undestand the scope of what happened in Hungary last Sunday, let me show you the same map from the 2022 elections, at a time when Tisza did not even exist. (Electoral disctricts have since been redrawn.)
Viktória Serdült@viktoriaserdult
🇭🇺 Official election results in Hungary. Tisza party: 141 seats (96 single-member constituencies/45 party list) Fidesz-KDNP: 52 seats (10 single-member/42 list) Mi Hazánk: 6 seats (0 single member/6 list)
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@ShaqAram Igazságot Zoltánnak Vas megye végül nem lett meg a Tiszának!
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@ZoltnGborSzcs1 @ShaqAram Might still flip. And at least Simon did.
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@ShaqAram My only regret. He seems an especially despicable politician. A petty tyrant.
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@ZoltnGborSzcs1 I think Starmer is a really bad political leader but the comparison is silly. But he might have learned from Biden’s mistakes.
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Surprise, surprise. A revolution that looks like a revolution.
Isaac Stanley-Becker@isaacstanbecker
It seems he meant it when he said in his victory speech that Hungary would not be a country without consequences.
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@ZoltnGborSzcs1 Also people tend to forget the problem of incumbency.
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Summary: Orbán's regime was corrupt and had terrible economic policies, mostly because it was autocratic.
Wolfgang Munchau@EuroBriefing
The main reason why European governments led by the far-right are failing is poor economic performance. One of the biggest differences between Trump and Orbán is that the US economy – so far – performs quite well, whereas the Hungarian economy is a basket case. What RN, AfD, and Reform have in common is lack of an economic strategy. If they don’t know how to raise growth, they will be blown away. eurointelligence.com
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