The bad luck of Hungarian Viktor Orban

Dozens of journalists gathered and did not miss a beat of the fight which took place in front of a children's home in a steep alley in Pécs, a town of 130,000 inhabitants in southern Hungary.Péter Magyar , a 43-year-old Fidesz dissident, wanted to enter to highlight the sad fate reserved for orphans across the country. Tamas Menczer, the communications director of Fidesz, out of nowhere, intervened, challenging his opponent to a duel and wanting « talk from man to man ». He was obviously on a mission to make Orban's new challenger lose his head, in the hope that the latter would strike him in front of the cameras, that the people would turn away from him and that political life would resume its course under the embrace of the party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has governed since 2010 and sees himself remaining personally in charge until 2030.

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