Orban’s strategy was stealing EU money for himself and his cronies. The EU largely stopped funding Hungary, so the money dried up and he has no reason to cling to power that hard.
Just a couple of examples for anyone who wants to see some. A $200 million dollar soccer field in his home village of 2000 people, which included a $3 million, EU funded train that goes 3 miles from the village to another one that just so happens to have one of his family palaces. Orban got EU funding for that train by promising it would have 2000 riders/day. Instead, in its first year, it had less than 2000 riders, total. Yes, ijstead of 730,000 riders/yr, it was 2000 riders/yr. It now just runs on weekends.
Also, apprently all highway work in the country is done though subcontractors that all buy stone from Orbans fathers stone mine at markes up prices.
He tried, but the election system was solid enough that he couldn’t hack it so fast.
It’s pretty open, as a private citizen you can ask to be a vote counter, and plenty of people do so every election. You get to observe the voting, work with the staff (even get paid for it), and count the votes. If you see anything out of the ordinary, you can have it noted, and it becomes public knowledge immediately through the election system.
So if he tried to mess with that, it would have gotten violent.
because unlike US politicians, he’s actually read enough history to know what happens to eastern european politicians that try to hold onto power past their time
Wow, he actually conceded?
Does anybody know why he wouldn’t just hard-rig the election, considering how long and obviously they’ve soft-rigged it?
Orban’s strategy was stealing EU money for himself and his cronies. The EU largely stopped funding Hungary, so the money dried up and he has no reason to cling to power that hard.
Just a couple of examples for anyone who wants to see some. A $200 million dollar soccer field in his home village of 2000 people, which included a $3 million, EU funded train that goes 3 miles from the village to another one that just so happens to have one of his family palaces. Orban got EU funding for that train by promising it would have 2000 riders/day. Instead, in its first year, it had less than 2000 riders, total. Yes, ijstead of 730,000 riders/yr, it was 2000 riders/yr. It now just runs on weekends.
Also, apprently all highway work in the country is done though subcontractors that all buy stone from Orbans fathers stone mine at markes up prices.
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5773321
He tried, but the election system was solid enough that he couldn’t hack it so fast.
It’s pretty open, as a private citizen you can ask to be a vote counter, and plenty of people do so every election. You get to observe the voting, work with the staff (even get paid for it), and count the votes. If you see anything out of the ordinary, you can have it noted, and it becomes public knowledge immediately through the election system.
So if he tried to mess with that, it would have gotten violent.
https://lemmy.world/post/45468912 . The election system was quite fucked up actually.
That’s voter fraud, not election fraud is my point.
because unlike US politicians, he’s actually read enough history to know what happens to eastern european politicians that try to hold onto power past their time