The Hungarian revolt

Article subtitle: 
The re-election of Viktor Orbán is a stunning rebuke to the meddling of the EU.
Article publisher: 
Spiked
Article date: 
31 March 2022
Article category: 
National News
Medium
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No one expected that Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán would be re-elected with a substantially increased mandate at this weekend’s General Election. The results surprised all the parties in Hungary, including Orbán’s own Fidesz. And it certainly shocked the international supporters of the coalition standing in opposition to Orbán.

This weekend’s vote was arguably the most important in Europe since the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU in 2016. Like the Brexit vote, the Hungarian General Election touched on foundational issues – the most important of which was national sovereignty. This was an election about the right of a nation to determine its own future. Hungarians were voting on who gets to decide the values and ideals they will live by – their own elected representatives or the unelected elites of the EU and other globalist institutions....

You could tell the stakes in this election were high because the Western media ceaselessly sought to undermine and delegitimise Orbán’s government....

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