Hungary: how the Orbán machine, fighting for its survival, took action before the elections

Reportage  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in power for sixteen years, is faltering in an electoral campaign where revelations about the corruption of power are multiplying. His failure in the April 12 vote would cause Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to lose their main vassal in Europe.

“Ruszkik, haza!” Although Viktor Orbána deploys the strong arms of his security services on each trip, this slogan awaits him on the street corners, devastating: « Dehors les Russes ! » The same words brandished, seventy years ago, by the Budapest insurgents against communist power. And the symptom of an electoral campaign where nothing is definitely happening as planned for the Hungarian Prime Minister, overtaken by the revelations on the collusion of his government with the regime of Vladimir Putin.

Since 2010, Viktor Orbán has embodied Hungary as a commander, driving opposition to despair, tightening the screws of unchallenged oligarchic power with each election. Neither its diplomatic isolation nor the European sanctions for its attacks on the rule of law could begin…