Hello, everyone,
I'm very much concerned about what's currently going on in Hungary.
It resembles a bit how Berluconi came into power, but this time things are much, much worse, because elected right-wing populists are exeedingly distrting the whole constitution of the country !
Mr. Orban is eroding Hungary's democracy in a similar manner like Berlusconi did - but with more concerning goals : He tries to install his party of Fidesz as an (if possible) neverending source of power (similar to what Berlusconi did), which includes drawing lines of election areas so that his party gets more votes than ever, installing party members and even his wife into central key positions, limiting what's the press is allowed to write about (in a similar manner to late laws of Berlusconi) - and the worst of it all is . He dances with right-wing extremists !
These are articles I picked out of the net which write about it :
General view I : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16387117
General view II : http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,805112,00.html (funny that they are only citing left-wing newspapers ???)
View on recent economical decisions : http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/12/democracy-hungary-0
Blog entry : http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/12/democracy-hungary?page=7
I would not want to live there anymore.
Alrik
I'm very much concerned about what's currently going on in Hungary.
It resembles a bit how Berluconi came into power, but this time things are much, much worse, because elected right-wing populists are exeedingly distrting the whole constitution of the country !
Mr. Orban is eroding Hungary's democracy in a similar manner like Berlusconi did - but with more concerning goals : He tries to install his party of Fidesz as an (if possible) neverending source of power (similar to what Berlusconi did), which includes drawing lines of election areas so that his party gets more votes than ever, installing party members and even his wife into central key positions, limiting what's the press is allowed to write about (in a similar manner to late laws of Berlusconi) - and the worst of it all is . He dances with right-wing extremists !
These are articles I picked out of the net which write about it :
General view I : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16387117
General view II : http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,805112,00.html (funny that they are only citing left-wing newspapers ???)
View on recent economical decisions : http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/12/democracy-hungary-0
Blog entry : http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/12/democracy-hungary?page=7
I would not want to live there anymore.
Alrik