Viktor Orban's Hungary: the road to Keleti station
TitreViktor Orban's Hungary: the road to Keleti station
Call numberS296.05/001
N° d'objet08098c
Lieu de publicationCollingwood, Victoria, Australia
EditeurThe Jewish Quarterly
Année de publication
2021
Paginationpp37-52
MatérielArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'The Jewish Quarterly ' 'The return of history: new populism, old hatreds ' May 2021 Issue 244 pp37-52
Description
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