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Viktor Orbán’s New Assault on Free Media and Civil Society
23 November 2023
European elections are somehow odd; they are neither really European nor proper elections.
The above idea paraphrases Mark Franklin and Michael Marsh, and it is usually where I start my lectures about European Parliament elections.
Indeed, there is no direct link between the EP elections results and the way the European executive is portrayed. In other words, the direct representation mechanism that voters are familiar with on the national level does not apply here. The elections are not really European either because they are more driven by the domestic rather than the European agenda.
The two experts expressed this thought in 1996, but it remained valid for the years that followed, and also applied to the 2004 and 2009 EP elections that “new” member states participated in.
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