Hungarian election winner Péter Magyar is set to travel to Italy’s Riviera International Film Festival on May 5 to attend the international premiere of of documentary “Spring Wind – The Awakening.” The doc charts the political journey that culminated with his historic April 12 victory in the country’s general elections. Directed by Tamás Yvan Topolánszky,…
Centre-right, pro-European Union opposition leader Péter Magyar beat populist, right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Hungary’s high stakes general election on Sunday. Final results have yet to be posted but Magyar’s victory was confirmed when Orbán conceded defeat in an address to members of his populist Fidesz party just under three hours after polling closed…
John Oliver delved right into his topic of the night, discussing Hungary‘s descent into far-right populism via Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s documented legal coup. While making a point about Orbán and his wealthy supporters’ acquisition of myriad online and print publications, radio outlets and TV stations, and how negative coverage of the government has…
