Don't worry about Viktor Orbán

Many fear the future Hungarian prime minister because of his harsh slogans, but we should wait to see what he actually does with his two-thirds majority, writes the daily Die Presse: "The man is extremely ambitious, stubborn, tough and hyper-patriotic. ... Anyone who has ever met him also knows he can be very bright, tactically brilliant and extremely convincing - a politician through and through, the type you don't find too often nowadays. No, we needn't fear Viktor Orbán. We should wait and see what he does with his absolute parliamentary majority and whether he really wants to provoke his nervous neighbours. Then we can judge him. There are many indications that Orbán can handle the right-wing extremist spectre that has been haunting Hungary better than the socialist governments ever managed to do. Then I'm willing to bet that the 'Be afraid' slogans will be completely forgotten."

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