A month and a half has slowly passed since the parliamentary elections. During this time, countless studies and analyzes were published, which tried to reveal the reasons for the result. The fourth two-thirds victory surprised everyone, since the last four years were not easy to say the least. First, we had to deal with the unknown terror of the coronavirus epidemic. Then they had to face the EU's extremely aggressive, ideologically motivated economic and political attacks. The culmination of everything came with the real horror of war in Ukraine, in our immediate neighborhood. Despite all of this, or as a result of all of this, Fidesz-KDNP once again received unquestionable political authority.
Why did this happen? Perhaps we can get closer to the solution if we look further back in time. In fact, the two-thirds success of the three elections held since 2014, despite all apparent differences, can be traced back to one fundamental reason. If we want to understand this thought experiment more deeply, we should first analyze what happened in our immediate environment. Three elections were held in Bulgaria in 2021 before the "desired" result was achieved. Until then, the executive government steered rather than managed the country.
The cabinet included two young, newly minted politicians who had returned home after their studies at Harvard. The future prime minister, Kiril Petkov, denied having Canadian citizenship, which would have disqualified him from being a minister under Bulgarian law. But this was not an obstacle for him. In September, he founded Let's Continue the Change! movement, and they already won the elections in December. Meanwhile, organizations linked to George Soros supported their campaign with huge sums. They won with a turnout of barely forty percent, and a four-party coalition took the reins of government, to the greater glory of democracy.
In Slovenia, just three months before the elections, a party founded under the name Freedom Movement won, with Robert Golob parachuting into its leadership. Previously, he was the president of a center-left party, and now he has reached his goal at the head of a green-left-liberal grouping. According to press reports (not surprisingly), they were able to win with the active support of the Slovenian Open Society Foundation. Several anti-government NGOs campaigned for them, during which they financed more than a hundred journalists.
We could bring examples from our region similar to what happened in the two countries. In all cases, the pattern and method were similar: a newly founded movement, young, Western-bound, liberally committed faces, newly entering the political scene with significant foreign financial and media support. The recipe led to success in most cases. We can rightly ask why this methodology did not work for us.
The entire Magyar Nemezt article can be read here.
Author: József Horváth
Photo: Zsolt Szigetváry
