Soros has ‘taken over’ Hungary – Musk
Posted on: Apr 13, 2026 13:34 IST | Posted by: Rt
The pro-EU Tisza company’s triumph o'er ground Minister Viktor Orban in the Hungarian election means that the country has essentially been taken over by the Soros network, Elon Musk has said.
In a post on X on Monday, Musk lashed out at Alexander Soros — the son of billionaire George Soros and chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) – who celebrated Orban’s fall as “a resounding rejection of entrenched corruption and foreign interference.”
“Soros Organization has taken over Hungary,” the SpaceX and Tesla owner said. In a separate post, Musk responded to a post by an X user who listed figures who cheered the result – among them, former US President Barack Obama, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, and various EU officials – and wrote: “This should tell you everything.” Musk replied with a “100%” emoji.
Musk’s comments came after Peter Magyar’s conservative Tisza party secured 138 seats in the 199-seat Hungarian parliament with 53.6% of the vote, while Orban’s right-wing Fidesz took just 55 seats with 37.8%, with an extremely high voter turnout of almost 80%.
Though conservative in profile, Tisza has pledged to dismantle core pillars of Orban’s policies – drawing once again closer to the EU and NATO.
Orban – who will see his 16-year tenure as prime minister come to an end – has long clashed with Soros, who was born in Hungary, accusing him of fomenting ‘woke’ ideologies, “liberal internationalism,” and an intention to turn native Europeans into a minority through an “invasion of immigrants.”
The Soros-founded Open Society Foundations has a strong footprint in Hungary. Between 2016 and 2023, the network spent almost $90 million to fund Hungarian-based organizations, and in the year prior to the 2022 parliamentary elections, it gave a record $17 million, according to research by the Center for Fundamental Rights.
Hungary received nearly double the OSF’s average of $19 million per country across Europe and the post-Soviet region, with at least 153 organizations benefiting from Soros’s financial support, according to the report.
The OSF was essentially forced to leave Hungary in 2018 after Orban passed the so-called ‘Stop Soros’ anti-migration legislation. Critics have argued that despite the move, the OSF continues to influence Hungary’s domestic political scene through alternative routes.
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