Cathrin Kahlweit in conversation with Zs\u00f3fia B\u00e1n and Zolt\u00e1n \u00c1d\u00e1m<\/p>\n
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On the evening of April 12th Viktor Orb\u00e1n will know whether he won the parliamentary elections in Hungary for the fifth time in a row. Although the polls show his main challenger P\u00e9ter Magyar in the lead, many foreign experts and Hungarians themselves are sceptical: Orb\u00e1n has changed the country into an electoral autocracy which makes it extremely hard to beat his party, Fidesz, legally. And then: legality is not a moral issue that is on the top of Orb\u00e1n's mind. His campaign is based on threats, money and fake news, his opponents speak of blackmail and pressure. Will the Hungarian voters end the era of the long time prime minister? And how are the chances of the country to return to the rule of law, given that Fidesz changed the texture of society, the juridical system, media and science to stay in power? Zs\u00f3fia B\u00e1n, appraised writer, scholar and critic, and Zolt\u00e1n \u00c1d\u00e1m, political economist at ELTE university with an expertise in regime change and authoritarian populism will talk about the elections and their consequences with Cathrin Kahlweit, specialist on Eastern Europe and long-time Hungary correspondent.<\/p>\n
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Zs\u00f3fia B\u00e1n, <\/strong>Hungarian writer, essayist, and literary and art critic<\/p>\n Zolt\u00e1n \u00c1d\u00e1m<\/strong>,political economist with an interest in regime change, democratic backsliding and authoritarian populism; senior research fellow at ELTE Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, in Sep. 2025 - Feb. 2026 fellow at WIKO Berlin<\/p>\n Cathrin Kahlweit, <\/strong>SZ correspondent, publicist and presenter for many years<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cathrin Kahlweit in conversation with Zs\u00f3fia B\u00e1n and Zolt\u00e1n \u00c1d\u00e1m HUNGARY: LAST CALL FOR THE ELECTORAL AUTOCRACY? On the evening of April 12th Viktor Orb\u00e1n will know whether he won the parliamentary elections in Hungary for the fifth time in a row. Although the polls show his main challenger P\u00e9ter Magyar\u00a0in the lead, many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10569,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-10568","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n