Political editor David Maddox tracks the origins of Orban’s crushing defeat on Sunday to the unforeseen consequences of a papal visit almost exactly three years ago
My cynical prediction is that the new government will struggle to hold anyone accountable, will soon have their own corruption scandals and will be out of power before they can fix anything. As we have seen in US and Poland voters are pretty stupid and if they voted for a crook once they will most likely vote for a crook again. There’s also a crisis coming, a crisis that will be blamed entirely on the government. I really hope the new government will prove to be extremely effective at prosecuting Orban and his cronies, will fix the system, people will love them and they will govern for the next 16 years but I’m yet to see government like that.
If we’re lucky this will help EU send aid to Ukraine and approve new sanctions on Russia. If we’re unlucky this will get blocked somehow anyway.
iirc the eu funds impounded due to democratic backsliding are worth more than the oil crisis, not to mention they can actually pass the wealth tax immediately with their new supermajority unlike biden’s plan and the divided senate
My cynical prediction is that the new government will struggle to hold anyone accountable, will soon have their own corruption scandals and will be out of power before they can fix anything. As we have seen in US and Poland voters are pretty stupid and if they voted for a crook once they will most likely vote for a crook again. There’s also a crisis coming, a crisis that will be blamed entirely on the government. I really hope the new government will prove to be extremely effective at prosecuting Orban and his cronies, will fix the system, people will love them and they will govern for the next 16 years but I’m yet to see government like that.
If we’re lucky this will help EU send aid to Ukraine and approve new sanctions on Russia. If we’re unlucky this will get blocked somehow anyway.
iirc the eu funds impounded due to democratic backsliding are worth more than the oil crisis, not to mention they can actually pass the wealth tax immediately with their new supermajority unlike biden’s plan and the divided senate