Hungarian PM Orbán is widely criticized for systematically dismantling his country’s democracy — but that hasn’t stopped him from winning praise among Republicans.
Viktor Mihály Orbán was born in 1963 in Székesfehérvár, about 40 miles west of Budapest. The family lived in modest surroundings. He says that as a boy, he and his siblings worked in the field feeding the pigs and chickens. He has alsoThe Pancho Arena in the town of Felcsút was built in 2014 on the very field where the soccer-obsessed Orbán played as a youth.
Speaking from his home in Vienna, Lendvai said that key to Orbán’s story is that Fidesz, which has won the“At the moment it is a hybrid regime: an open dictatorship in between a cultural democracy with no possibility of changing the government because they have the majority to change the law, including electoral law. The courts are in their hands,” he said.
The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders said Orbán “has built a media empire whose outlets follow his party’s orders.” where Orbán and many of his close associates studied, which became a launchpad for Fidesz — originally a left-of-center, youth-focused party that moved right during the 1990s.
Today, Orbán has become a poster boy for hard-line autocratic elected leaders like Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Russia’s Putin. His transformation from the voice of Hungary’s youth to anti-immigrant nationalist leader appears to have culminated on July 25 when he declared during a speech: “This is why we have always fought: We are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.
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