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RECONCILIATION, TRUTH AND JUSTICE IN HUNGARY: ORBÁN SHOULD SEIZE THE MOMENT

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12 March 2015

This week, Lajos Simicska, a former friend and political ally of the Hungarian Prime Minister, gave an interview on mandiner.hu  in which he raised his suspicion that Viktor Orbán might have been recruited as an informer of the old regime. This recruitment, suggested Simicska, most likely took place when Orbán and many of his Fidesz colleagues were conscripts in the early 1980s. The inference was that this was having a detrimental effect on the country.

TRUTH, JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION: HUNGARY’S TIME

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23 October  2011

 

Many commentators – both at home and abroad – mocked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban when he declared his election victory of 2010 a ‘revolution’.  Perhaps the commentators were too hasty in their judgement.

Look at the Hungarian political landscape of October 2011: the Socialists were destroyed at the polls and have now split and the old Liberals and Conservatives have been wiped from the political map. The Fidesz Party has an unheard of two-thirds ‘super-majority’.