Thanks for the explanation.That usually happens with public tv's. Apart from immigration policies ,How is the rest of his government? work, health, education ... you think he has done things well?
Why do you think his immigration message has been successful? Which were the problems of Hungary in that regard in the past? Romanian gypsies? Or suddenly too many people from everywhere provoking anxiety in the locals?
I talked about the state-funded work program earlier in this thread, in reply to SwansonTache.
Healthcare? In the election campaign Orbán did not mention the word in any of his interviews. Seriously. Not once. Which more or less reflects the last 8 years. They've pretty much done nothing. The country is still losing doctors and nurses at an alarming rate because they are paid a lot better in Western countries. They haven't made things worse I suppose.
There had been a massive centralization effort in education. Certain functions had been moved from schools to regional offices that were also responsible for budgeting for all schools. This was pretty much a complete failure and has been partly reverted since. Either religious studies or secular "ethics" studies are now mandatory; in many schools pupils and parents are pressured to choose the religious option. Children have more classes than ever before, they spend over 30 hours in classes every week.
The school textbook market has been aggressively cornered and nationalised: instead of schools being able to freely choose between the ratified and accepted textbooks of private publishers, they can now only use the textbooks of the state-owned publishers. There was no debate, Parliament accepted the law two days after it was submitted even though the government's own lawyers noted that the planned legislation violates EU directives in multiple ways. The new textbooks also have a clear ideological direction; politically "trustworthy" people became the leading figures of the new publisher.
The government is also aggressively pushing out CEU, one of Budapest's most important educational institutions, because of its alleged ties to György Soros. I wrote about this, too, in this thread
Economically, it's a mixed bag. After the heights of the financial crisis, with mortgages and other loans based on foreign currency skyrocketing out of control, they turned these into forint-based loans, partly financed by new taxes on the banking sector. This you can call a leftist move. They reduced national debt by nationalising the mandatory private pension funds introduced in the nineties. They cut spending on the social safety net but poured massive money into the restructured state TV and into building tons of football stadiums, including one in Orbán's own backyard - it's a modern stadium with a capacity of 3500 in a village of 1500. The biggest problem economically is that everything is heavily dependent on political capital. Big multinational corporations were kept happy, mostly, but smaller companies have to face a very unpredictable environment where they simply must garner the favour of the regime. There is no fair competition.
They modernised certain aspects of bureaucracy so for example submitting your tax report is easier than ever, as well as things like changing your place of residence, acquiring new personal documents, those things. That's quite good.
They are aggressively trying to invade the judicial branch, trying to influence who can become a judge; they mean to create an administrative tribunal where the judges would be senior administrative officers, loyal to the Fidesz government. They eroded all the other democratic institutions, they are taking over the media - today it has been announced that a major opposition newspaper as well as a radio cannot continue to operate because of lack of finances - in its entirety, changed the consitution and the election system to favour the strongest party. They placed their party soldiers into the leadership of all important democratic and/or regulatory bodies and organisations. They have done massive damage by systematically destroying democratic values; their communication strategy intentionally devalues these in favour of "order" and "defending Hungary". In my opinion, these are historic crimes which set the country back by decades.
you got it from the daily mail ?