Hungary: a Manual Populism and Its Fall

El Financiero

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Hungary represents only 2 percent of the population of the European Union, but its elections have had a significant international political effect, as this country had become a laboratory of authoritarian populism that spreads throughout the world, because the defeated Viktor Orbán had the backing of powerful leaders —Trump, Netanyahu and Putin — and because his government dedicated itself to obstructing decisions within the European Union that …