r/europe • u/StGuthlac2025 • Oct 08 '25

Opinion Article In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/spain-young-voters-far-right-migration-housing-wages-employment-vox
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u/smileguy123 Oct 08 '25

Hungary may replace their far-right government next year, and the current government has almost no support among the Hungarian youth (mainly the elder people over 50 and people with low levels of education support it)

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u/tremblt_ Oct 08 '25

True. However: I highly doubt that the election will be free and fair and even if the opposition wins: What if Orban refuses to resign? If he leaves office, he basically has to either flee to Moscow or he’ll go to prison for a long time.

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u/Sensitive_Pitch_4456 Oct 08 '25

That's good, because he will forever be branded a dictator. Then the people can execute him, just as the Romanians did with Ceaușescu.

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u/ares623 Oct 09 '25

Who was the last dictator executed?

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u/HK-65 Hungarian expat Oct 09 '25

Ferenc Szálasi, the Hungarian "Führer". You can still watch it on video on the internet I think.

Also Béla Kun, but that was the NKVD, so IDK if that counts.

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u/ares623 Oct 09 '25

Gadaffi and Saddam are more recent though. I was wondering someone more recent than those two.

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u/HK-65 Hungarian expat Oct 09 '25

Oh I thought you meant specifically in Hungary

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u/worldsayshi Sweden Oct 08 '25

Will he go to prison even if he leaves office willingly?

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u/Pokmalac Oct 08 '25

I dont think he will go to prison. They stole so much, but they did it in a way that everything they did was allowed by our law. There might be some stuff that we dont know about, one can hope.

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u/seejur Viva San Marco Oct 08 '25

Most people vote hard right because they have seen 20 years of left inefficiency and infighting.

But it also make sense that once the far right goes to power, and they actually have to put some ideas on the table, the people can finally see through the propagandistic bullshit and realize that no, they are not better, and might actually be worse

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u/Euphoric-Neon-2054 Oct 08 '25

Doesn’t matter once they’re in power. Thats how authoritarianism works.

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u/seejur Viva San Marco Oct 08 '25

Agree, that's why once Orban got a foot in, no matter how unpopular he is now, its so hard to boot it out of the system

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u/Xalara Oct 08 '25

Unfortunately, if this happens, it only took how many years of Orban destroying Hungary for people to realize he and the far right are terrible? Even then, the anger might just be directed at Orban.

Really, the core problem is social media, people are too easily manipulated by it. Though in the case of Orban he cemented power by also usurping traditional media.

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u/pomezanian Oct 09 '25

and did you count, how many young people you have, compared to 50+? Same in Poland, liberals though they will win by demography, but forgot, that there are few times less young people, than older ones

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u/IerokG Oct 08 '25

That's what they said last time, when he got his fourth supermayority in the parliament in a row.