Employees of state TV network portray how channels pumped out pro-government messaging ahead of Victor Orbán’s election victory this weekA main editor at Hungary’s state television network punched the air in jubilation as he took a phone call on Sunday evening. Shortly afterwards,his subordinates realised what he had been told: Viktor Orbán had secured a resounding victory in the parliamentary election.
Orbán and his Fidesz party achieved a third consecutive supermajority in the Hungarian parliament after a campaign primarily fought on an anti-migrant platform. International monitors would later complain about the campaign’s “intimidating and xenophobic rhetoric” and note that public television “clearly favoured the ruling coalition, at odds with international standards”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk