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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Power Hungary: How Viktor Orbán Destroyed a Democracy

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How did Viktor Orbán seize total power within Hungary – and what warnings should other nations take from his actions? Doomsday Watch host Arthur Snell is joined by Zsolt Enyedi, professor of political science at the Central European University, to unpack what lessons democracies should take from the Orbán era.        “The public treated the radicalisation of debate as a political gimmick, and now we are seeing the disastrous effects.”  “Orbán is stronger than he was a year ago, and is only getting stronger.”  “Orbán put in an enormous amount of money to change how people inside and outside of Hungary think.”   Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Tickets to Doomsday Watch Live: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/etmejHAuba Written and presented by Arthur Snell. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Italy has won an election and will almost certainly become its next prime minister. This is an indicator of a wider phenomenon of populist

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and far-right nationalist leaders finding success at the polls in various European countries. The case study of Hungary is a fascinating one,

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where Victor Orban, originally seen as a liberal and a Democrat, has taken his party in an increasingly

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right-wing direction, arguably ending democracy itself

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in that country.

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To help us understand this phenomenon, I'm delighted to be joined by Professor Jolt Enyadi, who is a professor at the Central European

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University in Hungary and also a senior researcher at their Democracy Institute.

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Jolt, welcome.

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Thanks for having me.

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