• Séra Balázs@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    As a hungarian I say it’s basically a dictatorship at the moment, there’s no way that fidesz has 2/3-rds of the total votes, and I haven’t yet met any person that met a person that voted for them, and it probably isn’t just an echo chamber, because I know people from all around the country, and they’re all saying the same. I think that hungary shouldn’t be kicked out, because when hungary gets any kind of sanctions, the only thing it achieves is worse living conditions for the average hungarian also known as a non-fidesz voter

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      there’s no way that fidesz has 2/3-rds of the total votes, and I haven’t yet met any person that met a person that voted for them

      This sounds like anecdotal evidence at best. E.g. Human Rights Watch says of the 2022 elections:

      International observers characterized the elections as free but raised serious concerns about their fairness. Q

      I would seriously caution against making claims of outright election rigging unless there’s credible reporting on that.

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      You’re maybe suggesting that there’s some rigging of the elections going on or some bribe and corruption. It sounds like what happened in Turkey where Erdogan started to use money and goods to get his votes for example by donating food to the very poor each time after these poor people would attend a progressive lecture by the author of this book : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lose_a_Country

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        Here for some reason, if you’re a hungarian but live outside the borders, your votes still count and Orbán uses it as one of his main strategies. Basically the hungarians that live abroad get better benefits from the government, like free travel countrywide, more money for childcare and things like it while still getting the benefits from the countries that they live in.