To some extent, this is justified: Independent election observers faulted Orban’s party, Fidesz, for tilting the playing field in its favor. Orban’s Fidesz party, once an urban-based party focused on market economics, grew into a nationalist, big-tent party with a variety of conservative views. A nationalist party to its right, Jobbik, also won 17 percent, while the Hungarian Democratic Forum won almost 3 percent. To understand Fidesz’s political dominance, one must understand that Orban’s nationalism responds to a long-standing element of Hungarian public opinion. But that move alienated some of its members of parliament, who split to form a new nationalist party, Our Homeland.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2022 17:38 UTC