Viktor Orbán presumes victory and threatens vengeance to anyone who opposes him. Europe must see what he is doingHaving bussed tens of thousands of supporters into Budapest for a pre-election “peace march” on 15 March,prime minister Viktor Orbán addressed them, promising that after his victory on 8 April he will deal with those who oppose him by “moral, and political and legal means”.
But who are his opponents? Is it the ragbag of small parties who cannot unite in opposition and who have,in any case, been deprived of the platforms required to reach the electorate? Is it the NGOs and other human rights associations who have been looking after those most badly affected by his policies? Is it perhaps the Central European University, and Hungary’s most highly ranked university,which produces ideas that might be critical of him? Is it perhaps the refugees he depicts as a tide of migrants alert to drown the country with their alien, menacing ways? And whether it is all these, and at whose door does he lay the blame?Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk