The fall of Orbán and the rise of Magyar in Hungary reveal how controlled electoral systems can collapse when public anger, elite defection, and strategic political reframing converge within institutions designed to resist change
Over the last few years, Erdogan’s regime has turned increasingly dictatorial, chipping away at the democratic checks and balances, silencing the media, replacing elected mayors with bureaucrats, controlling the judiciary and manipulating elections
The ‘Dutch Declaration of the Rights of Man’ envisaged that no power on earth should have the right to control the destinies of the people living in another country