TWENTY-FOUR TWO PODCAST: PÉTER MAGYAR “BEHAVES LIKE A TANK”
- Apr 16
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 7
Hungary’s morning after... Analyzing the regime-change in Hungary -after the euphoria settles. Twenty-Four Two’s special 15-episode series on Hungary.
“A competitive authoritarian regime is a competitive authoritarian regime,” Scheiring tells us. “As long as you have elections, it’s possible to beat the ruling party, but it’s just hard, right? It’s much harder than in a free and fair democracy with free and fair elections”. Orbán conceded quickly because his defeat was undeniable. “I’m pretty convinced they had multiple scenarios and multiple playbooks but the result was so overwhelming, they couldn’t really do anything. What do you do against a landslide? Your only option is to use the military and repress society, and the next question is: do you really want to enter Hungarian history books as the dictator despised by his own people who used the country’s security forces to stay in power?”
