When the Fidesz-led coalition took office, the country was on its knees. The economic situation was dire, public administration falling apart, the socialist government mired in corruption. The two-thirds majority won by Victor Orbán was a demand from the Hungarian electorate to clean up the mess. The government is doing that and, predictably, it has outraged those on the left who present Fidesz’s reforms as anti-democratic, authoritarian, autocratic, xenophobic (take your pick).
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