Episode 38 - The Party Line on Victor Orban’s defeat in Hungary ft Rob Narai
A short and sharp one this time, as the Party Line debriefs the spectacular defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary. As the leader of Hungary since 2010, Orban has been one of the key figures strengthening and promoting far right politics across the world. His government promoted antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ, anti-migrant tropes aggressively, and ran an increasingly authoritarian government stacked with far-right stooges. As well, his time in office has seen the rich in Hungary - particularly his close mates - increase their wealth enormously, while workers and the poor have suffered. What next for Hungary? And what does this Peter Magyar fellow stand for anyway? The pod wanted to answer these questions, but we quickly realised we didn’t know very much about Hungary. So we invited a genuine Hungarian, Rob Nari, to tell us all about it.
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