The self-appointed champion of illiberalism, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán did much to engineer this week’s election result in Hungary. But as Réka Kinga Papp notes in her take on the election, there is obviously demand for what he is selling, writes James Thomson, Eurozine’s Editor-in-chief.
A refashioned electoral system helped Orbán return to power, but a fragmented and incompetent opposition has paved his way for over eight years now, Papp argues in Eurozine, while….
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