Opposition counters: Hungary will remain so forever
Let us not believe that this system will ever end.
Our paper has begun to look at the accounts of opposition vote-counting activists, who typically travel from the city to the countryside – as an instructive insight into Hungary’s public conditions in 2022. Here comes one, and more will come.
Illustrated so far reports can be read here.
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“We broke champagne at 11pm on Sunday night. After 17 hours of constituency work, the minutes were handed over. I lay down to sleep without even looking at my phone, it was enough to see the proportion of votes (which, by the way, was about everywhere almost all over the country), and I somehow felt like they were going to grow up or dozen to rejoice.
I was in a village of 300 people all day, barely 80 km from Budapest. It was an ideal day, everyone voted nicely, in a cheerful mood, without the slightest problem.
The counting committee is just a kind, sensible, honest, honest person.
At first they stared a little, but the two gatherings were good, so they were with us too, after a couple of hours we were completely confident towards each other, we laughed a lot after the voters left, introduced them to us with a few funny gossip and a lot of love. The clerk asked honestly, but I see that you couldn’t cheat here even if you wanted to. I reassured me that it never occurred to me that anyone here wanted to.
Everyone had a great routine already, but somehow it turned out that after seven in the evening I conducted the entire vote counting procedure, reading the manual and checking every step. Aunt Zsuzsi, a retired teacher who has been the chairman of the committee since ’98, has not been grateful for the prepared help she has received. We said goodbye with a kiss, a gift on behalf of the village, he asked me to give me a member in the other elections as well. And jump in with him anyway, because I haven’t even seen the dachshunds he went home to several times during the day.
Aunt Zsuzsi is not only a cute granny, but one of the most influential people in the village.
Like the other members of the committee, a staunch pro-government,
he also played a quiet but important role in the campaign, as he is asked about everything in the village anyway. He seriously said his opinion didn’t matter anymore, but he wanted a nice future for the kids.
My dear bubble friends, this has been a very important day for me. I have lived in the countryside for a while, but even then I have only just understood (if I see it well, along with many) that we need to fundamentally change our thinking. Let us forget the words that democracy, do not call ourselves an opposition, do not wait for elections again, do not believe that this system will ever end, do not be afraid of the actions of the NER again, do not trust that Europe will uplift. Hungary will remain so forever.
We have only one thing left to do: to learn to live with the Hungarians, those who are twice as many as we, who always want such a government for themselves. Tribal thinking, ours and only we can break it down, but it is not so difficult anyway, as the country is full of kind, sensible and fair people, they do not understand what is wrong with us. They don’t understand because we’ve told them what they hear on TV, the tale they can easily get over when they see that we’re not. We will not repay them, and that is no longer the goal, but instead of their simple, lying truth, we can show that there are still important, open questions. They are also when they touch their daily lives so much that it is their honor to overcome their faith.
And they are the people, they are in power,
only through them can change be achieved. Because we can trust at the same time, the populist, unprincipled power pays no attention to anyone but them. We will never be able to talk to NER and his intimidated clients. But Aunt Zsuzsi, who is otherwise friendly with the newly elected representative, is waiting for me with a cookie, I will take sausage to her dachshunds and I will ask if she, as an expedition, knows why her colleagues are on strike now. And I’m going to have tea, have a lot of beer with everyone, I don’t have four years, but the rest of my life. ”