Global News: April 2022 Archives
Hungarian elections & liberal cruelty - by Titus Techera
What are American conservatives doing to identify and develop politicians like Viktor Orbán: "Conservatism is doing very badly in our times, in my opinion because it's too apolitical. I don't think PM Orbán can change that, but I do believe that if people were to learn about the political principles involved in his activity, they would find the resources to attempt something similar in many different countries. But this is most unlikely to happen, because conservatives are on principle opposed to great talent & the most important thing about PM Orbán is that he is a very talented politician. Recruiting his like, fostering the associations that could identify, possibly educate such a man, is of the essence of right-wing politics, & I've not heard yet of it being attempted anywhere..."
About Hungary - Hungary's parliamentary election system 101
An overview of the system used in the April 3, 2022, election for Hungarian Parliament: 106 members elected first-past-the-post in single-member districts; 93 elected proportionally nationwide from party lists, using D'Hondt method of allocation. Each voter casts a vote for candidates running in his local constituency and a separate vote for a national party list. Unlike many countries with a mix of single-member and party-list elections, this is not a top-up system that aims to make the overall result proportional to the national vote.
More post-election analysis from Titus Techera, writing at Substack as PostModernConservative: "Hungary is so hated because it opposes these transformations & the politics they require--indeed, the end of politics, the replacement of popular opinion, debate, & decision with administrative decisions by far-removed courts, which are of course unelected, but which have to redesign the most fundamental institutions of our ways of life."
The six-party coalition that tried to unseat Prime Minister Orban held a two-round primary election to select the candidate in each constituency and the coalition party leader who would be prime minister if victorious. The idea was to avoid the problem of trying to win a first-past-the-post election with multiple candidates.
Official results from the first round of the 2022 election for President of France, from the French Ministry of the Interior. Round 2, between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and Marine LePen, will occur on April 24, 2022.
