PETER MAGYAR IS ELECTED IN LANDSLIDE VICTORY AS NEW PRIME MINISTER OF HUNGARY AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS OF VIKTOR ORBAN

NPR ORG: WHO IS PETER MAGYAR WHO BEAT VIKTOR ORBAN?

Excerpt: He burst onto the scene as an opposition leader in 2024, rising rapidly to become the leader of the center-right Tisza Party, which won a two-thirds majority in Sunday's parliamentary election. Orbán, who has led Hungary for 16 years, conceded and congratulated Magyar less than three hours after polls closed. ...

In a victory speech delivered to a sea of jubilant supporters on the banks of the Danube River, Magyar reiterated his promises to rebuild Hungary's ties with the European Union and NATO, root out corruption and cronyism and "restore the system of checks and balances." ...

The country has economic incentive to do so: Since 2022, the EU has frozen billions of dollar's worth of funding for the country because it said Orbán was violating key democratic values. Magyar said the country will "never again allow anyone to hold free Hungary captive or to abandon it." ...

A note: I apologize for identifying the man previously as the President of Hungary and have fixed my errors.  I suppose my Americanism is at fault. However, Hungary has both a Prime Minister and a President. 

ROMA "GYPSIES" IN HUNGARY - A LOOK AT WHAT THE CONTROVERSAIL SITUATION IN HUNGARY IS WITH THIS ETHNIC MINORITY

It's not easy to separate Roma society and culture from Hungarian society and culture.  Especially not in the mind of certain ignorant Americans who do not know the differences.  I've mentioned this stereotype of Hungarians in the past and I've posted in an inclusive way.  However, what I want to look at this month is what the present-day situation in Hungary is for the Roma people.

I want to mention that "Gypsies" are not all alike and that there are a number of ways to refer to this population.  Rom, Roma, Romany are just some variations. 

I'm providing these links that I've found and read for you to also read: 

HUNGARIAN CONSERVATIVE : BOOK LAUNCH ABOUT SUCCESSFUL ROMA MEN

In this article the book focuses on the positive.  

The book launch event for Sorsformálók – Sikeres roma férfiak történetei (Fate Shapers – Stories of Successful Roma Men) ‘Our Roma compatriots are valuable and indispensable members of society, and we view them as a valuable resource. The new book serves as a tribute to successful Roma men and honours all Roma individuals who have managed to progress, demonstrate their capabilities, seize opportunities, and enhance their circumstances in recent years.’

In this article the plight of the Romany people is exposed:

PH MUSEUM - VOLENCE AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION OF ROMANY PEOPLE   PH Museum is dedicated to Photography.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban's attitude and Jobbik Party is blamed.

FACEBOOK EUROPEAN ROMA RIGHTS CENTER Lots of posts include legal actions to ensure that Roma people have equal opportunities to education and medical care.

If this subject interests you, please continue to research for yourself.  You may also wish to respectfully give your opinion using Comments!

HUNGARY AS A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY ACCEPTS CHRISTIAN REFUGEES

In recent times Hungary has been criticized for an anti-immigrant stance, a build the fence (if not the wall) policy.  While I'm not in favor of building a physical wall as a boundary between the United States and Mexico, I'm for a strong defense of our country. 

I'm sympathetic to this in Hungary because I understand that Hungary is first of all a small country (which would fit in the state of Indiana) and cannot economically or physically absorb millions of people from anywhere.  It was once three times as large.  Secondly because Hungary struggles or refuses to help it's own impoverished population, which includes Roma (gypsies) and the homeless (who are stereotyped as alcoholic loosers) which I personally do not think of Christianity in action and thus feel should be helped first as native Hungarians. Founded as a Christian country and with a Constitution which states it is a Christian country, Hungary became so after hundreds of years of the most horrendous experience with Moslem Turk invaders who killed off most of the population and destroyed towns, infrastructure, churches. Heroics in battles against the Turks resulted in the formation of a new nobility.  In recent times Hungary has decided that the country WILL TAKE IN CHRISTIAN REFUGEES. 

HERE ARE SOME ARTICLES TO CONSIDER:

THE GUARDIAN : VICTOR ORBAN DEPLOYS CHRISTIANITY

EXCERPT: Only 15% of Hungarians say they attend church on a weekly basis,but 80% identify as Christian. Orban, who started out in politics in the late 1980's as an anti-Communist activist with little time for religion, found God in the 1990's, and even remarried his wife in a religious ceremony.

IRISH TIME : REFUGEE HOSTILE HUNGARY URGES....

EXCERPT: Addressing a Budapest conference on threats facing Christian communities, Mr. Orban warned that "the fate of Christians in the Middle East should bring home to Europe that what is happening over there may also happen to us."

"Europe, however, is forcefully pursuing an immigration policy which results in letting extremists, dangerous extremists, into the territory of the European Union," he told an audience that included church leaders from the Middle East.

HUNGARY AND REFUGEES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

REUTERS - EUROPE MIGRANTS HUNGARIAN REFERENDUM full article

EXCERPT:

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken an increasingly anti-immigrant stance since the migration crisis escalated last year and opposes a plan, agreed by a majority of EU governments in September, to redistribute 160,000 migrants around the bloc.

Along with Slovakia, Hungary has launched a court challenge against that plan, which will set quotas for each EU country to host a share of the migrants over two years.

DAILY MAIL - HUNGARIAN OUTRAGE AT EUROPEAN UNION REFUGEE PROBLEM


EXCERPT: 

States could refuse to take people for a year - but only if they paid another country 250,000 euros per person to accommodate them.

 

But at a meeting in Prague, ministers from Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic all repeated their opposition to the idea of relocation. 

'It's blackmail, it's unacceptable and a non-European type of proposal from the (European) Commission,' Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after a meeting with his counterparts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland in Prague.

'The quota concept is a dead-end street and I would like to ask the Commission not to run into this dead-end street anymore.' 

 

Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski echoed Szijjarto, saying: 'I'm still wondering if it's a serious proposal, because it sounds like an idea announced on April Fool's Day.'

  

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 In earlier posts I used the example of being an individual who is giving to some friends who have less than me and feeling the difference between the ones who find a way to give back and those who may say Thank You but don't.

 

I will tell you the equivalent of what is happening here is the United States of America, especially in Southern California where we have 50,000 homeless (or more) and there is, first of all, no affordable housing.  Without a stable residence it is near impossible to hold a job. Yet we keep not addressing this problem of poverty among citizens and keep taking in new immigrants.  Granted some of these new immigrants have wealth they bring with them or can prove that their educations and employment history make them valuable to us, because there are not enough Americans available with equal offerings.  That means that there are many people from India coming in with advanced degrees in computer-related fields, scientists and doctors are always welcome.

Still, I would never think to show up in a foreign country and expect the people there to immediately accept me and support me.  THAT'S WHY LEGAL IMMIGRATION EXISTS, so that a country can access it's needs as well as how many people it can accommodate before people show up!

HUNGARIAN DUAL CITIZENS LIVING OUTSIDE HUNGARY MAY VOTE IN 2014!

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR : HUNGARY SEEKS VOTES FROM ABROAD  full article link here!  VERY IMPORTANT NEWS! By Valentina Jovanovski, Contributor / September 3, 2013

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For the first time, ethnic Hungarians living abroad will have the right to vote in Hungary’s national elections next year... The government says that 480,000 people have applied for citizenship, and thousands have registered to vote, after a 2010 law allowed non-residents with Hungarian ancestry to become citizens and participate in national elections... Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is betting these new citizens will support his Fidesz party. The government’s populist, nationalist message includes frequent reminders to a policy of uniting ethnic kin that live beyond Hungarian borders."


This means that thousands of  those who have applied for dual citizenship in countries such as Romania and Slovakia will vote in 2014, and interestingly, those of you who are American Citizens but who wish to also have Hungarian citizenship may apply for this and also vote.

To get the citizenship you must be able to speak HUNGARIAN.

NEW CONSTITUTION OF HUNGARY : PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN MOVES AHEAD THOUGH ACCUSED OF BEING UNDEMOCRATIC