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The Hungarian Illiberal Democracy (2010–Present)

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Parties

  • Fidesz
  • Christian Democratic People’s Party
  • Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik)

Government

  • Prime Ministry
  • Prime Ministerial Cabinet Office
  • National Assembly
  • —National Assembly Election Procedure
  • —2018 National Assembly Election
  • —2014 National Assembly Election
  • —2010 National Assembly Election
  • Constitutional Court
  • Curia
  • President
  • Local Government

Government Institutions

  • National Bank of Hungary
  • Hungarian Export-Import Bank
  • Budget Council
  • Nat’l Media and Infocommunication Authority
  • Media Services and Support Trust Fund (MTVA)
  • National Judicial Office
  • Counter Terrorism Center

Pro-Government Organizations

  • Civil Cooperation Forum (CÖF)
  • —Peace March Demonstrations
  • Central European Press and Media Foundation

Laws

  • Fundamental Law
  • —Amendments to the Fundamental Law
  • —European Union Criticism
  • —Council of Europe Criticism
  • Media Laws
  • Land Law
  • Communist-Era Domestic Intelligence Files
  • Law on National Higher Education (Lex CEU)
  • The NGO Law
  • Amendments on Outdoor Political Advertising
  • STOP Soros Law

Economic Policy

  • Eastern Opening
  • —Eastern Opening: China
  • —Eastern Opening: Russia
  • —Eastern Opening: Azerbaijan
  • Government Debt
  • Household Foreign-Currency Debt
  • Public Utility Fee Cuts
  • State Monopoly on the Retail Sale of Tobacco
  • Nationalization of Private Pension Funds
  • European Union Excessive-Deficit Procedure
  • Sunday Shop Closing
  • Hungarian Investment Immigration Program

Oligarchs

  • Lőrinc Mészáros
  • Andy Vajna
  • Árpád Habony
  • István Garancsi
  • István Tiborcz
  • Gábor Széles
  • Lajos Simicska

Journalists

  • Zsolt Bayer
  • András Bencsik

Other

  • Declaration of National Cooperation
  • “Let’s Stop Brussels!” National Consultation
  • National Consultation on the “Soros Plan”
  • Orbán Government and EEA-Norway Grants
  • Orbán Government Stadium Construction
  • Orbán Government Homeless Policy
  • Sargentini Report
  • New Hungarian Guard

Notable Quotes

  • Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
  • National Assembly Speaker László Kövér

History

  • Principality of Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896–1000
  • Medieval Kingdom of Hungary . . . . . . 1000–1526
  • Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary . . . . . .1526–1867
  • —Ottoman Hungary
  • —Principality of Transylvania
  • Austro-Hungarian Monarchy . . . . . . . .1867–1918
  • First Hungarian Republic . . . . . . . . . . . 1918–1919
  • Hungarian Soviet Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1919
  • Horthy Regency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1920–1944
  • Arrow Cross Government . . . . . . . . . . .1944–1945
  • Provisional National Government . . . . . . . . . .1945
  • Second Hungarian Republic . . . . . . . . 1946–1949
  • Hungarian People’s Republic I . . . . . . 1949–1956
  • —1956 Hungarian Revolution
  • Hungarian People’s Republic II . . . . . 1956–1989
  • Third Hungarian Republic . . . . . . . . . .1989–2010

Photo Galleries

  • Beginning of the End I: the Demonstrators
  • Beginning of the End II: The Leaders
  • Beginning of the End III: the Cops
  • Beginning of the End IV: Signs and Symbols
  • Scenes from the Great Migration 1
  • Scenes from the Great Migration 2
  • Scenes from the Great Migration 3
  • Scenes from the Great Migration 4
  • And So They Left
  • The Curtain Falls Again
  • The Fields Are Speaking Pashto
  • Making Politics of Migration: the CÖF Signs
  • First Peace March
  • Sixth Peace March
  • Seventh Peace March
  • Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party Peace March
  • Jobbik May Day Celebration
  • The German Occupation Memorial
  • Toppling the Orbán Statue
  • Media Independence Demonstration
  • Homelessness in the 11th District of Budapest
  • 2007 and 2008 Budapest Pride Parades
  • 2013 Budapest Pride Parade
  • Lex CEU Demonstrations
  • April 2018 Opposition Demonstration

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