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Katherine Kondor

@drkondor.bsky.social

Researching the extreme right | cultural production and aesthetics | music, food, fashion, fighting | FR in Hungary | punk rock & equal rights | proud dog mom | AuDHD | Senior Researcher at the Norwegian HL-Senteret | Affiliated @crexuio.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇭🇺🇧🇻

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Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4mo ago

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

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Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

👀🗳️ When polls close in Hungary at 7pm, there won’t be proper exit polls. Instead, some reliable independent pollsters will release embargoed surveys conducted just days before the vote. Their results are in line with their previous, already published findings (no surprises).

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Katherine Kondor@drkondor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‼️ A record 66% by 15:00, with four hours to go - meaning nearly five million people have voted so far. 🗳 It's looking like an 80%+ turnout is likely, suggesting very low chances of anyone other than Tisza or Fidesz reaching the 5% threshold. The question is, how parliament will be divided... 🇭🇺

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Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.

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Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hungary’s turnout is BRUTAL: 37.98% by 11am (2022: 22.77%), pointing to 75–80% or more overall. In such a scenario, Orbán’s chances look slim, and it’s unlikely any party beyond Fidesz and Péter Magyar’s Tisza clears the 5% threshold. Follow me for more #HungaryElection updates.

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Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

💥Heroes’ Square in Budapest is hosting the “anti-regime grand concert,” with tens of thousands bracing for the end of Viktor Orbán’s rule on Sunday. Chants of “Russians go home” are heard, while performers mock Viktor Orbán and Péter Szijjártó as servants of Vladimir Putin. 📸 444.hu

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Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

💥Russian intelligence services are more deeply embedded in the Russian embassy in Hungary than in Belgium, where NATO’s headquarters and several EU institutions are based.

Report: Nearly half of Russia’s embassy staff in Hungary may have ties to intelligence services — Meduza

Nearly half of the staff at Russia’s embassy in Hungary may have ties to intelligence services, the independent Russian investigative outlet Agentstvo found. Fifteen embassy employees have confirmed connections to the intelligence services, and six more are suspected of having such links, the outlet said, based on an analysis of leaked data spanning several years. Hungary’s Foreign Ministry lists 47 staff members at the Russian embassy.

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦@profpech.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Orban's fake uni (Mathias Corvinus Collegium) "was significantly enlarged in 2020 when Hungary’s Fidesz-majority National Assembly transferred to it 10% stakes in two of Hungary’s largest companies – energy firm MOL and drugmaker Gedeon Richter" democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?

Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

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Katalin Halmai@eublogo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🛢️Hungary’s oil company, the MOL Group just approved €600M+ in dividends, timed days before elections. A huge chunk flows not to small investors, but to government-linked foundations tied to Fidesz elites. 2/1

Simon Hix@simonhix.bsky.social · 4mo ago

With this poll, Orbán is laying the ground to refuse to recognise anything but a win by him as legitimate, eg. www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/cur.... Such an outcome would drive a further wedge between Europe and the US government.

Trump’s Pollster Puts Fidesz Ahead Nationally by 5 Points

In the final poll by the American polling firm McLaughlin & Associates ahead of the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is leading MEP Péter Magyar's Tisza Party by 5.3 points nationally, 42.6-37.3. McLaughlin only released one public national poll for the 2024 US presidential election, but that one poll proved to be remarkably accurate.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 7mo ago

MAGAs: The left is escalating the rhetoric by calling us Nazis Also MAGAs: Look at our new podium, featuring a Nazi slogan about the time Nazis wiped out an entire village in Czechoslovakia and killed up to 5000 innocent people in retaliation for one Nazi being killed. "One of ours, all of yours."

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Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · last yr.

☠️🇭🇺 International neo-Nazis gathered in Budapest yesterday to honor WWII Nazi and allied Hungarian soldiers—under Hungarian police protection. The annual "breakout hike" lets them march in Swastikas and SS uniforms. "Hungary has zero tolerance for antisemitism" – as Viktor Orbán said... Pics: HVG

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Audrey Gagnon@audreygagnon.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Call for applications 📣 Nicola Mathieson and I are collaborating with @crexuio.bsky.social and VOX-Pol to organize a PhD Summer School on the study of online right-wing extremism, to be held in Oslo from 9-13 June 2025! For more info and to apply: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Call for applications: PhD summer School Studying Online Extremism - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism

Studying Online Extremism: Ethics, Methods and Personal Safety (2nd edition)

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Katherine Kondor@drkondor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting things ahead! 📢 Working on something connected to culture/cultural production of the far right? Consider submitting a panel or paper to our section 'Everyday Extremism: The Rise and Normalisation of the Far Right'!

European Consortium for Political Research@ecpr.bsky.social · 2y ago

📯 Introducing a ✨ NEW conference ✨ for researchers specialising in extremism, democracy, and populism 🥇 Inaugural Conference of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social 🕰️ New and Old Challenges of #Populism and #Radicalism 💂‍♂️ Hosted by @qmul.ac.uk 📅 9–10 June 2025 ✍️ Submit your Panel or Paper by 3 March

C-REX@crexuio.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're counting down to the end of 2024 by highlighting key C-REX events from throughout the year. No. 10: Our postdoc @uzaahm.bsky.social was awarded the King's Gold Medal for his dissertation on meaning-making among radicalised and non-radicalised Muslim men in Norway www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/...

Exclusion and racism can contribute to radicalization - Department of Sociology and Human Geography

What makes some Muslim men living in Norway become radicalized and others not? There is no simple answer, according to Uzair Ahmed's Ph.D. dissertation, for which he is awarded the King's Gold Medal. ...

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