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turbinetree

(25,267 posts)
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:47 PM Saturday

Ever wonder why that dictator Orban was showing up at the former Kellogg house..........in Palm Beach.........

ever hear of the Fidesz Party....................he wasn't there to play fucking golf....................

How Viktor Orbán Wins

On 3 April 2022, Viktor Orbán won his fourth straight election with his fourth straight supermajority in parliament that allows him to amend the constitution at will. This essay traces how he managed to do that. Orbán’s skillful use of the war in Ukraine and his major expansion of social benefits right before the election were important in that victory. But even more crucial were the rules of the game that Orbán established after his election victory in 2010, rules that have been constantly modified as the opposition has tried to work around the barriers that those rules erected. Hungary has already been demoted from democracy to autocracy by all democracy raters. This essay shows precisely why those rankings are right. As long as Orbán retains complete control over the rules that govern elections, he can remain in power indefinitely.

In the run-up to Hungary’s 3 April 2022 parliamentary election, the race looked too close to call. But insiders knew that the structural bias in the electoral system meant that the six-party opposition coalition, United for Hungary, was fighting an uphill battle. The opposition had done everything it could to unpick the lock on power that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of the Fidesz party had installed with his revision of Hungary’s electoral system ten years earlier. By giving up their individual party ambitions to run a single coalition candidate against Fidesz’s candidate in each district, the opposition maximized its chances of winning.

Days before the election, even the most Fidesz-favorable poll predicted that Orbán would lose his two-thirds grip on the 199-member unicameral parliament even if he managed to scrape out a majority.1 It takes just a single two-thirds vote of parliament to amend Hungary’s constitution. Thus having a supermajority, as Orbán’s Fidesz has had for all but a short time since coming to power in 2010, means that a party can put itself above the law by changing the constitution at will. So even if the opposition failed to win, taking away Orbán’s two-thirds majority would have been a victory.

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-viktor-orban-wins/

A long read...............

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Ever wonder why that dictator Orban was showing up at the former Kellogg house..........in Palm Beach......... (Original Post) turbinetree Saturday OP
The EU need to kick these bums out. Having a member OnDoutside Saturday #1
I agree, but the problem is right now because these two a**holes are undermining republics.......... the traitor in turbinetree Saturday #2

OnDoutside

(20,656 posts)
1. The EU need to kick these bums out. Having a member
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:50 PM
Saturday

state run by a dictator is incompatible with the EU project.

turbinetree

(25,267 posts)
2. I agree, but the problem is right now because these two a**holes are undermining republics.......... the traitor in
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 04:08 PM
Saturday

at Palm Beach is going to use the play book that Orban used to gain power and he is going to get a lot help with the maga house and senate and the media should be putting this guy in a box......... now............and the media in my opinion has failed completely.............. I believe that the traitor is going to use the Orban model.............they are wringing there hands over Geatz and and other traitors......fine ........ but an example I would like to use is this ....................have you ever heard someone ( media) asking lets say that RFK hypocrite if his parents Robert and Ethel had to show the school ( public or private) that he was going to attend did you get your measle , rubella, and polio shots before entering the school.....yes or no.......and then everyday after that keep asking RFK to demand that he show those records..............I had to have them, you had to have them .............and when I went over seas I had to get vaccines to prevent me from getting sick and dying............. and then someone should ask that orange hair traitor the same question.........everyday...........and everyone of those lackey's and even the ones in the house and senate......let me see your vaccine records...........prove it.........

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