Viktor Orban's Hungary: the road to Keleti station

Viktor Orban's Fidesz party (Young Democrats) started out as a party of young idealists with a broadly liberal agenda. Over the 1990s, its more progressive elements left the party or yielded to Orban's increasingly conservative and mafia-boss-like dominance. Through legal manoeuvres he has undermined the independence of the judiciary and media, making an opposition electoral victory practically impossible