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Hungary’s ruling Fidesz rolls out new slogan, opposition Tisza says “Thanks” and takes the domain
Hungary’s political campaign season has barely begun, yet a symbolic online skirmish has already unfolded after the opposition Tisza Party secured a domain name linked to the governing Fidesz party’s newly unveiled campaign slogan.
On Saturday, Péter Magyar, president of the Tisza Party, announced on Facebook that his party had registered the domain biztosvalasztas.hu, corresponding to Fidesz’s freshly revealed slogan, “Biztos választás” (“A sure choice”). According to Magyar, the website was created immediately after news of the slogan emerged.
“I hear that Fidesz has its latest slogan. It goes like this: ‘A sure choice.’ Where we can, we help,” Magyar wrote sarcastically in his post, adding that the website was “sent especially” to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and “with love” to Fidesz voters.
A search on Hungary’s official domain registry confirms that biztosvalasztas.hu has been conditionally registered since Saturday morning. While the domain has not yet reached final registration status, the website is already live and publicly accessible.
A critical reinterpretation of the slogan
Rather than promoting the government’s message, the website presents a sharply critical reinterpretation of Fidesz’s slogan. The main text claims that Fidesz represents “a sure choice” only for a narrow circle of political and economic elites, naming figures such as Lőrinc Mészáros, István Tiborcz, György Matolcsy, and what the site describes as “corrupt Orbán-era oligarchs”.
The homepage features a black, white, and yellow collage including photographs of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Antal Rogán, János Lázár, Lőrinc Mészáros, as well as Ráhel Orbán and István Tiborcz. Below the images, visitors find a questionnaire and a prominent green box urging voters to participate in the Tisza Party’s political mobilisation efforts.
In his Facebook post, Magyar outlined what he claims the slogan truly represents, listing a series of guarantees he attributes to Fidesz governance. These include rising national debt, the deterioration of healthcare and child protection systems, and the release of convicted human traffickers.
Criticism of government performance
The post and the website go further, presenting a detailed list of social and economic problems which Magyar describes as the outcome of Prime Minister Orbán’s rule. Among the claims are that Hungarians live on average five years less than the EU average, that one in four pensioners lives in deep poverty, and that Hungarian wages reach only around 70% of the EU average.
Other highlighted issues include child poverty, record-high VAT rates, underfunded hospitals, severe staff shortages in healthcare, long surgical waiting lists, and what Magyar calls a crisis in public education. The post also criticises rising housing prices, the loss of EU funds, and what it labels systemic corruption costing Hungary thousands of billions of forints.
Migration and labour policy also feature prominently, with the Tisza Party leader accusing the government of deliberately allowing large numbers of low-paid guest workers from Asia into the country.
Fidesz prepares to launch its campaign
The timing of the move is notable. Earlier on Saturday, it became public that “Biztos választás” will be the governing parties’ official slogan for the upcoming parliamentary elections in April. Fidesz is launching its campaign at a party congress, where it will also present its 106 individual constituency candidates.
At the time of writing, Fidesz has not publicly commented on the domain registration or the content of the website.
Clever …
Yet, I take it as a sign that the campaign managers for Magyar have yet to comprehend that continually ringing the corruption bell around Fidesz’s head is not going to change the insecurity that smalltown and rural voters have about the potential mass migration swamping Hungary under Tisza (Bruxelles) led Hungary not to mention the systemic sexualization of Hungarian children under the notion of gender ideology.
I have to say that I am absolutely shocked that the Western Elite, after going to all the trouble to regime change the current Hungarian prime minister, via the wildly piratical public seizing of Hungarian assets – tax money) did not trouble themselves to find someone highly competent, like Arthur Finkelstein, to run Magyar’s campaign.
Oh well…
Ah, Mouton. Ever the master of deflection. While the Tisza Party cleverly redirects Fidesz’s new slogan to expose actual corruption, Mouton is over here spinning a yarn about mass migration swamps and the “systemic sexualization” of children.
It’s the same tired Fidesz playbook: when you can’t defend the record, just change the subject to a scary, imaginary monster.
How convenient that these phantom threats always seem more urgent than the very real, documented oligarchs and failing public services he so desperately wants everyone to forget.
And why the heck a Russian bot lives in the USA cares about the Hungarian news?
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A majority of Hungarians, Dear Rádzs, do not think like you do.
Where do they disagree with you?
#1. That, just because Fidesz has corrupt officials Tisza will not have them.
#2. That corruption is the decisive election issue.
#3. That Fidesz’s (and Mi Hazánk’s, as well) criticisms over the reality of a Tisza Party agenda for Hungary will just be phantoms and imaginary monsters.
So long as The Hungarian Left thinks like you they are very unlikely to ever get power, but, if they do, it will be quickly taken away from them, just as Hungarians Rednecks and Smalltowners removed Kohn Béla’s administration.
A Majority of Hungarians do not eye the current France, Germany, or England with envy, but, rather, with fear and loathing.
Mouton, your AI answer makes it only more suspicious!
And you did quite well ignoring my second half of the question ;D
Mr. Orbán has repeatedly won elections, under rules his own government helped shape.
However, the EU has frozen or delayed funds over rule of law and corruption concerns basically saying: it’s still an internal treaty based mechanism, where the EU will not disburse all funds until the legal and institutional standards Hungary signed up to when joining are met. Just to dovetail into your disappearing money / corruption point.
Also, I remind you as a foreigner that Hungary is a significant net beneficiary. We gets much more from the EU budget than it pays in – typically around 3 to 5 percent of Hungarian GDP EACH YEAR. Check out our GDP growth since joining, year by year, and deduct that for reference.
Your point re Mr. Finkelstein is … Crazy? He was one of Mr. Orbán’s key political strategists and responsible for the polarizing, grievance driven, anti Brussels messaging that now defines Fidesz.
1, Hungary is no longer a net beneficiary. With the “fines” for not allowing invaders, Hungary is a net contributor.
2, The EU sabotages Hungary to engineer a regime change. The EU has published documentation of it. You can see the video evidence on the EP’s website.
Fantastic. People going to the website while get a message about Fidesz corruption. Mouton meanwhile is spinning his wheels in the morass of Fidesz mindless distraction politics consumed by “gender”, “migration”, “western elites”. Fidesz does not want you to think about their corruption, your lives made difficult by inflation, disasterous medical services, disasterous economy, bankrupt national finances, etc. They are responsible for how you live and they have created massive failure for Hungary.
Yes, Dear Larry, the complaints you have thoroughly listed here are continually voiced by Hungarians, both Left & Right.
So there can be no argument with this – it is objectively true.
The complexity, however, in the voting analysis, comes in taking a fuller look at the Fidesz Administration, because, whatever their faults are, they must have done something right, because Hungary has not become the shithole Germany, England, France, and the Low countries have become.
Also, your presumption that the Tisza Party, and, thus, a tighter EU rule over Hungary, would not be corrupt is something that many Hungarians would not share.
Many Hungarians will think as I do.
How do I think?
All political adminstrations will have corruption. The question is : what will be the results of the parties, if elected to power.?
Several policies will keep a majority of Hungarians for voting for Magyar.
Policy #1. Sending endless money, that Hungarians do not have, to fight a war with Russia that Bruxelles seems not to want to end.
Policy #2. Instituting Gender and other woke idealogy in Hungarian schools.
Policy #3. Swamping Hungary with Muslim immigrants and paying for it with money Hungarians do not have.
Yes, Dear Larry, you might regard all this as mere ‘Fidesz distractions’, but, I assure you that a majority of Hungarians will not.
Yes, even if you discount war and the LGBTQ lunacy, the fiscal policies of Tisza would be so ruinous as to soon make Orbán Viktor, in retrospect, look like a fiscal genius.
Within two years of a Magyar Péter leadership, if not sooner, Hungary would be howling, much worse than it did under Gyurcsány Ferenc.
@Mouton – let’s engage the brain instead of emotional reflexes, shall we? Facts and data? You do appear to love those simplifications …
You are posting powerful emotional levers. “War!, “Children!”, “Migrants!”. Nice buzzwords to keep our Politicians’ base duly terrified.
The hard question for us Hungarians is not “Do we want war, woke, and migrants?”, it is rather “can we have rule‑of‑law, predictable EU funds, and a less corrupt, more competent state without giving up border control or our culture?”
Our Politians are trying to kill nuance – and so, it seems, are you.
We are not a shithole nation. We are the largest economy in Europe. Central and Eastern Europe, depend on us. Especially Hungary. We are the major investors and employers. Not the US. Not Russia. Not China. We are also rebuilding our military and will be the key force in Europe before the end of the decade. I hope with atomic bombs to not depend on the untrustworthy USA. Hungary should say thank you, not complain.
The open border policies encouraged by the EU are destroying European countries. All countries have their internal issues but it is critical for Hungarians to not lose sight of the big picture.
Orban released 2,300 convicted human traffickers from prison allowing them to go back to work smuggling people. He is making the problem worse and that is his intent because he wants human trafficking to fester and then complain about the EU. Russia and Belarus are pushing migrants across their borders into EU front-line states. Orban is working together with Russia to cause division in Europe over migrants. Orban does not want migrants to stop coming.
‘Orban is working together with Russia to cause division in Europe over migrants.’
If this is true, Dear Larry, Bruxelles could easily stop trying to replace Europeans with Muslims, but, they do not … which tells you everything you need to know about who is doing what.
Let’s engage the brain and not emotional reflexes? Starting to feel like a broken record…
Your Muslim replacement framing is nothing more than a conspiracy theory. . There’s no evidence for any such plan, and nothing in EU treaties, laws, or official policies supports it.
Wars and crises are pushing people toward Europe, aging European populations need workers, and there are varying national policies, and also real integration and security challenges. These are legitimate points to debate, however there is no secret replacement plot. Your narrative distorts reality and feeds polarization. This may actually be your goal?
Your conspiracy theories for the existance of air are proven false. There is no evidence for it (that I will accept, because I don’t care about the truth, just want to call you racist).
Just cut the crap already. We all know it’s a policy. British, German, French etc government policy.
It’s so obvious, that I can’t believe even you are stupid enough to doubt that. So stop insulting the common folk’s intelligence ok?
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Everybody knows the best way to win in sports betting is to bribe players or referees? You would absolutely LOVE our Politicians! Look at how our TAO funds are allocated:
TAO funds are allocated by private companies that opt to divert their corporate income tax obligations directly to specific sports clubs rather than the central state budget.
However, in practice, this functions as a loop of legalized patronage: the vast majority of these billions are funneled to clubs with direct ties to high-ranking Politicians. The most famously Mr. Orbán’s home village academy in Felcsút, which has received massive funding.
The game works like this: a company “allocates” its taxes to a Politician’s pet project as a signal of loyalty, effectively purchasing political favor or ensuring future government contracts under the guise of supporting sports. Hungary at its finest!