Who is, how does he think and how does he govern the man who transformed his country into the first illiberal laboratory in the European Union?
What enabled a politician with a progressive education to become the symbol of the sovereign right?
Viktor Orbán presents himself as an alternative leader for Europe and challenges the Western ruling class on the issue of multiculturalism. At the same time, it has built and manages a corrupt and feudal system, authoritarian but based on a broad popular consensus. A system subject to international criticism but tolerated and indeed financed by the European Union. The parable of the Hungarian prime minister from the 1980s to today transcends the biographical dimension of the character.
Its history reflects the general crisis of democratic representation and illustrates the errors of perspective committed by the liberal elites and by the Brussels politics, co-responsible for the authoritarian derailment in Eastern Europe, where pragmatic populism has a name and a face: that of the despot Orbán.
