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Viktor Orbán’s New Assault on Free Media and Civil Society
23 November 2023
Viktor Orbán’s shrewd talent for perpetuating a permanent campaign mode in Hungary has a new slogan, “Protecting Sovereignty”.
Apparently, “protecting sovereignty” might be one of the key motives of Fidesz’s campaign for the upcoming period, with new legislation tabled for Tuesday.
As a logical continuation of former anti-Brussels and Stop Soros campaigns, it builds on the “besieged fortress” mentality Fidesz successfully nurtured for more than a decade and the familiar enemy pictures it paints.
The bill to come
In late September, Máté Kocsis, the leader of Fidesz’s parliamentary group, announced that a “sovereignty protection” bill should be passed in autumn “against left-wing journalists, pseudo-NGOs and dollar politicians”.
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