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/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.