Reading the news post about how Viktor Orbán has asked his party members to keep their mouths shut and avoid making their opinions public, I couldn’t help but think of former Fidesz vice-prime ministerial candidate István Mikola’s infamous gaffe during the 2006 campaign, when he said Hungary’s youth were a bunch of “single techno listeners with pierced ears, and that there ought to be limits to freedom” (roughly paraphrased). While it didn’t sink Fidesz’s electoral chances by itself, it was certainly more than an own goal and allowed Fidesz to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It would seem Orbán’s being extra-sensitive about what his fellow party members might say this time around, especially as it can make the difference between a simple and a super majority.
Orbán’s “zipped lips” policy could have been more useful the last time
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