A second term for Orban?
That may depend on radical nationalists
HE'S young, slick with the media, anti-socialist, but is becoming ideologically more ambiguous: a more abrasive version of Tony Blair, say some Hungarians of Viktor Orban, their prime minister. Can he break Hungary's post-communist mould next spring by winning a second term in a row? Mr Orban's Fidesz party, seen by its foes as an arrogant young clique, has trailed behind the opposition Socialists for most of the years since the last election, in 1998.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “A second term for Orban?”
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