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■   His close industrialist friend rose to be richest thru cronyism

■   He brought in electoral system changes to ensure all corporate funding only for his party & controlled the Election body

■   He helped his crony to take over the country’s leading media firm

■   Doubled capital expenditure share of spending to give contracts to favoured few

■   Packed the Courts with his judges

■   Invested in a huge social media troll army

■   Trump endorsed his election campaign & he did a rally for Trump

■   Triggered social divisions & ‘divided & conquered’

■   Ruled by instilling fear across all sections of society

He, Viktor Orban of Hungary, just lost power after 16 years of such rule. (any parallel with other leaders is neither coincidental nor unintentional)

Hope our political leaders in the country listening to this. Where are our GenZ? Sleeping?

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

14h Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime