FOR VIKTOR ORBAN, it was a nightmare. On June 28th over 100,000 people marched in Budapest’s Pride parade, championing LGBT rights and defying a government ban. Hungary’s hard-right prime minister has dominated his country’s politics since 2010. But for months polls have put his Fidesz party well behind a new outfit founded by Peter Magyar, a conservative who rails against government corruption. With a general election due in April, Mr Orban’s formula of bashing gays, migrants and the European Union seems to have stopped working.
Viktor Orban’s economic luck runs out
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