Absentee ballots from Romania may give rise to electoral fraud
We are witnessing a mad dash to register the largest possible pool of voters in Hungary’s neighbors, especially Romania. Currently 4,000-5,000 applications for citizenship reach the office handling the...
View ArticleHungarian domestic attitudes toward voting rights of outsiders
The forthcoming election will be a hot topic in the next few months, and the voting rights of the Hungarian minorities in the neighboring countries will be a continuing subtext. So today let’s look at...
View ArticleSome citizens are more equal than others
I simply can’t understand the Hungarian opposition’s lack of initiative and its sluggish reactions to unacceptable actions that are being taken day in and day out by Fidesz and the Fidesz-ruled...
View ArticleOrbán’s anti-refugee propaganda is a roaring success
I think it is time to report on the incredible hate campaign under way in Hungary in preparation for the October 2 referendum on the nonsensical question: “Do you want the European Union, without the...
View ArticleTransylvania in focus
Today’s post will be devoted to three subjects, all of which are related in one way or the other to Transylvania. The topics range from beer to the coming national election to a fifth-grade Hungarian...
View ArticleHungarians oppose the Orbán government’s policy toward ethnic Hungarians...
Originally, I considered writing about the “gala interview” that László Kövér gave to Magyar Idők yesterday. I must admit that this decision was based mostly on the couple of reactions I read, which...
View ArticleDemokratikus Koalíció moves into a “new phase” of its electoral campaign
Ferenc Gyurcsány, president of the Demokratikus Koalíció (DK), announced a “new phase” in the party’s 2018 election campaign. DK activists will collect signatures of people who agree with DK’s resolute...
View ArticleSurprising developments in Ukrainian-Hungarian relations
It was at the end of January that I wrote about the exceedingly problematic relations between Ukraine and Hungary which began in 2017 when Ukraine embarked on the “Ukrainization” of its population,...
View ArticleTwo ways Fidesz rigs elections
I think we can safely say that the last clean election took place in 2010, still under the supervision of the socialist government. Since then, Fidesz introduced certain electoral rules and regulations...
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