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Why Orban is Facing his Toughest Ever Challenge
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Viktor Orban is facing his toughest political crisis yet with multiple key resignations from party members, including the President after she pardoned a man involved in a child sexual abuse scandal. So could this be the scandal that brings down Orban?
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1 – https://balkaninsight.com/2021/09/23/helping-hungarians-have-all-the-babies-they-want/
2 – https://bbj.hu/politics/foreign-affairs/visits/president-novak-meets-with-florida-governor-desantis
3 – https://x.com/GiorgiaMeloni/status/1695136525124542474?s=20
4 – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/17/hungary-viktor-orban-scandal-president-resign
5 – https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/10/hungarys-president-resigns-over-child-sexual-abuse-scandal
6 – https://www.facebook.com/peter.magyar.102/posts/pfbid0NmSnzH1DWWkMuvd8Y3FTze1venbrunfLySxAmvGtqiJxyFUhy7dkzQP36sySUSLal
7 – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/world/europe/hungary-viktor-orban-fidesz-resignations.html
8 – https://www.dw.com/en/hungarys-orban-laments-nightmare-pardon-scandal/a-68288903
9 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68323361
10 – https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/17/europe/hungary-child-abuse-scandal-orban-family-values-europe-intl/index.html
11 – https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-far-right-would-lay-claim-neighbouring-region-if-ukraine-loses-war-2024-01-28/
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@danielsz651
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
An addition, there were about 150.000 people out protesting and interestingly it was organised by 9 influences without any political affiliation!!!
@mediaaccess2
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
NOT CONSERVATIVE!! AS LEFT WING AS PUTIN, HITLER, STALIN —Otherwise, keep going on!
@raymondg7565
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Magyarország: Fascism in the EU.
@MrDadutch
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Because Orban won't Obey to the fascists in EU parliament
@Leberteich
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
5:00 So this champion of traditional Christian family values, Judit Varga, has an EX- husband?
@davidryke113
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Since when was Europe a land of Coups? What happened to good old fashioned impeachments? People do this and then get shocked when the president flees the country to Russia and asks for military aid cause you using violence…
@badassat69
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Excellent!
@dekurvajo
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Hungary is not a political matter anymore. Its an organized crime issue.
@jckistan
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Love the nod to Hbomberguy in the graphic about plagiarism!
@thamor4746
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
F:ing Orban. Isolate Hungary until they kick him out of office. He is literally destroying normal Hungarian people even if they realize it or not.
@eriktopolsky8531
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Not Orban but AngloSaxons are being pushed out and becoming less and less important, and they are not happy about that
@Greeem
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
"Pro-family values" politicians will do anything but actually protect families. Oh, a sexual predator? Let's pardon him and further restrict gay rights! It's such a shallow facade it's not even funny.
@UsefulAlien
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Hungary needs to get its act together or face massive loss of population as it heads further into the wilderness!!
@rickwhite4137
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
It's worth to mention that Orban has been visited by the far-right republicans in Congress, and Orban visited the US to meet with the same people. The goal was to discuss how all help to Ukraine can be stopped.
Orban, Putin, and the far-right republicans are all fascists!
@DK-nx9ri
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
I dont see the reporting totally independent. You maybe trying but still the feeling after seeing the video is that you wish him gone.
@gabortoth5936
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
This Orban rezsim hasto feels
@victorguzman2302
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Hungary has always been right wing. Remember that they supported the Nazis, without the backlash.
@bbenjoe
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Today, ruling Fidesz party named it's candidate for precidency, Mr. Tamás Sulyok, a lawyer who's been the head of the Constitutional Court of Hungary since 2014. Most likely they'll vote him in next week.
@AMOGLES99
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Right now the opposition are acting as if this crisis is their favour. But Orban rightly says that at least the people did step down. The Hungarian opposition has plenty of leaders who did not step down despite their various mis-steps and scandals.
@Asehpe
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Couldn't have happened to a 'better' guy.
@ems4884
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Hey Hungarians … How about getting rid of Orban now? We would like to revive our old friendship with you!
@annakisfaludinebaan
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
It doesn't matter what this dirty gang wants or doesn't want, Mr. Orbán never runs away! and he won't now!
@Whoo711
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
The really-"ironic" thing about Orban- or maybe not so ironic, in hindsight- is that he and his like-minded compatriots "cut their teeth", politically, in the late 1980s by *attempting to fend-off Soviet-backed/Communist Party tyranny*. He was at the "head" of a movement, within Hungary, to DO JUST THAT!
and yet… at least a decade or 2 later, he becomes this fascist- or, at least, fascistic- ultraconservative POS running yet-another movement, at home, that *does its best to ENFORCE ITS OWN CRUEL, STATE-BACKED (ultraconservative) TYRANNY all the same*.
w/ no sense of "irony", on his and his comrades' part? lol
YIKESS
@Equilibriumfan96
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
The protest have pretty much already stopped.
@dragonite1718
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Ironic to hear people who say gay people are pedos, vote for pedo defenders
@sammyautomatic3944
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Because he is working for FSB
@Sheena1234ization
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Good leader
@Deadpoolion
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
It is obvious that the globalists in Europe do not like Orban, but they cannot simply remove him, so they started by removing his allies.
@hamham_6411
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
As a Hungarian, excellent coverage. Feel like it's worth noting that the protests were organized by Hungarian influencers, rather than political parties.
As far as I know, this is something unheard of until now – not just in Hungary, but on a global level.
@szaszm_
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Some people consider the Budaházy pardon justified, and I believe them. His offenses were almost 2 decades ago, and he has spent most of the last decade in house arrest as far as I know.
@Zoliqa
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Hungarian here: so the narratives are these. Anti migration-now therr are factories where they kicked out the hungarian workers and employed only migrant ones. Save the childre-this video explains. And everything is cool-people's wages are low, and the value of our money is worthless.
People are brainwashed and i dont think there will be a new president. But they will loose their superpower
@robertgyiran
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
The problem with Hungary is it's not a democracy anymore. Orbán changes the election law every 2nd term to favour his party and weaken the opposition, meanwhile he is using the offices supposed to check on parties to punish his political enemies, parties. They changed the constitution 14 times! If Orbán feels his power is in danger, he will just change the rules again, as always. And of course, bigger chunk of the media is controlled by Fidesz.
@danielgospodinov5786
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
No migrants, no help for countries which does not matter, strong economy. Is it possible to be worse for the stupid Merkelsts and von der Leyenists? 🤣🤣🤣
@BangkokZed
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
The Fidesz government has granted 1 to 2 million Hungarian passports to Hungarian descendants from neighboring countries, entitling these passport holders to live and work in the EU and receive various social benefits such as free healthcare, education, pension, and low-interest bank loans. While Hungary-born Hungarians are sick and tired of politics, these new passport holders will climb over broken glass to vote for Orbán, guaranteeing an easy victory in any upcoming elections.
@markholland7322
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
As someone who went to a traditional protestant school as a child ( as a foreign family living in the Netherlands you didn't really know about these things) I am not surprised that the self proclaimed traditionalist conservatives are in fact hypocrites. That means that although these traditionalist reformed Christian conservatives were now shown to be hypocrites, so are their voters: and I'm sure these voters will come up with an excuse for their hypocrisy, as reformed Christians embracing traditional family values do. Something like its the Christian thing to give (fellow Christians) a second chance, and blaming the opposition of ruining the family lives of those good Christian people like the teacher, the president and the minister.
@Desperajoe
February 23, 2024 at 9:33 pm
Thank you for covering these tremendous 2 weeks of hungarian History! ❤