[AlAhram] Tens of thousands of Hungarians erupted into the streets in Budapest for a second consecutive Saturday to protest against newly reelected Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The crowd marched through the city to a rally where speakers demanded a non-partisan public media.
Campaigning hard against immigration, the 54-year-old Orban's overwhelming victory April 8 saw his Fidesz party secure around half the vote.
Last Saturday some 100,000 protestors held a protest in Budapest days after Orban's win.
But among criticisms regarding the fairness of the election, observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation said the campaign was marked by media bias.
As part of sweeping reforms since he came into power in 2010, Orban has turned the public media channels into what his critics call "government mouthpieces".
Many of the demonstrators, most of whom were young, chanted "democracy" and brandished Hungarian and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... flags.
An organiser, Viktor Gyetvai, 20, told AFP the protest "was not going to change the system overnight"
True.
but was aimed at sparking a "civil movement" to challenge Orban.
But now you’ll have to do without Soros funds, which should make life interesting.
"These are first steps, a sign that there are many Hungarians who want to live in a democracy, with independent institutions, and a free media," said Gyetvai.
Democracies vote. Hungary voted. You lost. This, too, is what democracy looks like. Sorry.
More demonstrations will be held in provincial cities in coming weeks, he added.
Demonstrations after one’s side lost the vote are antidemocratic. Stop being fascists.
Last Saturday some 100,000 protestors held a protest in Budapest days after Orban's win.
Last Saturday 100,000, this Saturday tens of thousands — they’re depleting even faster than the Gazans.
The victory handed Orban his third consecutive two-thirds parliamentary majority and a legislative free rein for the next four years.
Like for Donald Trump, the big cities voted blue, but the rest of the country voted red — and red won overwhelmingly. Naturally, the blue regions find this unacceptable, accustomed as they are to running the country.
Maybe not precisely a 'runoff', but this is far from the impression that it'll be a cakewalk for Romney to become UT's next Senator.
[Salt Lake Tribune] - West Valley City • After 11 hours of political elbowing and shoving at the Utah Republican Convention ‐ held appropriately at a hockey arena ‐ delegates forced Mitt Romney into a primary election against state Rep. Mike Kennedy in the U.S. Senate race.
In fact, Kennedy ‐ a doctor and lawyer ‐ finished in first place at the convention with 51 percent of the vote to Romney’s 49 percent. The former GOP presidential nominee fell far short of the 60 percent needed to clinch the nomination outright.
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Ask, JohnQC, and the internet answers — at least about the last election. From Wikipedia:
Donald Trump won the election in Utah with 45.5% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 27.5% of the vote. Independent candidate Evan McMullin received 21.5% of the vote.
I wouldn't know for sure but I'd bet he has not given up his home in La Jolla. I'll never forget that he was willing to let Hillary win in 2016 rather than support Trump. I sincerely hope he loses this primary.
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Sounds like Mitt Romney forced Mike Kennedy into a runoff.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
