How Erdoğan and Orbán pulled off the modern coup
Democracy has been subverted in plain view by those purporting to act in its name
by Oliver Walsh 27/07/2020
On March 30, 2020 Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz allies in the Hungarian parliament used coronavirus as a pretext to push through a law that suspended elections, criminalised free speech and gave the prime minister the authority to rule by decree indefinitely. Hearing echoes of twentieth-century European coups, many decried the ‘end of democracy’ and the establishment of a dictatorship.
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