Far from the “victory for democracy” celebrated by Barack Obama and EU leaders, Péter Magyar’s election as prime minister of Hungary last month represents the success of a sophisticated system of electoral manipulation.
By using a coordinated strategy to undermine Hungary’s conservative nationalist leader, Viktor Orbán, and promote the pro-EU candidate, Magyar, globalists elites in Europe and the United States ensured a pro-Brussels victory in Hungary. They did so without the need to annul results, as was necessary in Romania, or to bar candidates outright, as was done in Romania and France.
On election day in Hungary, the casting of ballots was free and fair. One of us (Anna Wellisz) co-chaired an independent monitoring mission of nearly 100 observers and can attest to the procedural integrity at the polls. Yet procedural fairness on a single day does not define the full process. Years of external pressure, largely from outside Hungary, shaped the outcome.
A system that buries one candidate’s arguments while boosting those of the other cannot be called fair, regardless of clean polling mechanics. Mysterious resources from outside Hungary transformed Magyar, the pro-EU candidate, into a social-media star, despite legal bans on foreign funding and digital political ads. Meanwhile, EU officials and Western journalists unironically warned of “foreign interference” from Russia while ignoring their own massive influence operation.
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