Gordon Bajnai on the total failure of the Orbán government

Hungary's right-wing conservative government is not only determined to cement its grip on power but it also pursues bad policies, writes the former independent prime minister Gordon Najnai on the blog Haza és Haladás run by the Home and Progress Foundation, which he co-founded around a year ago: "After 18 months of Viktor Orbán being in power it is clear that his right-wing conservative government has led Hungary in the opposite direction of all the democratic and economic goals articulated by society after the collapse of communism in 1989/1990. ... In Hungary, a strange synthesis of greed for power, economic incompetence and a cynical perception of society has taken shape. ... The Orbán government has systematically broken the backbone of Hungarian democracy vertebra by vertebra. ... From a practical point of view democracy is basically nothing but the possibility to correct a poor government performance quickly and peacefully. Poor government can manifest as a series of mistakes and wrong decisions on the one hand or the result of an exercising of power that runs contrary to society's interests. We are currently dealing with both. ... Hungarian democracy hasn't experienced a worse combination in twenty years."

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