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What’s going on in the world today? Here Is An interesting item we saw news in French. (Please pardon the self-translation)

An excerpt from the

article, “Viktor Orban. The man who does not like democracy” can Be found below. Please read the Entire Article at this link: Viktor Orban. The man who does not like democracy .

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reform reform, the Hungarian Prime Minister restricts freedoms and concern in Europe.

By Jean-Christophe Rufin, of the French Academy – Paris Match

dictatorships, such as dresses, follow fashion. In 30 years, the trend was quite the coup. But it is a long time since Hitler and others sought their inspiration from Malaparte, reading “Technique of the coup.” The post-war revolutions brought up to date. Maoism, Castro, Arab nationalism, there were at the time for all budgets. Alas, when Fidel still holds (but in what a state!) And where Kim Il-sung survives to himself through his offspring, the time is hardly the disciples of Lenin. The weather is not favorable, right now, for autocrats. Gaddafi to Assad, Ben Ali to Mugabe, the tyrants have the need to worry.

Candidates for the dictatorship are now forced to be more cunning. The mesh or full uniform bristling with decorations must remain in the closet. The right way these days, everyone is trying to absolute power, is to dress in … Democrats. We need to elections, even if the rig; appoint electoral commission be declared as soon as independent; respect the Constitution, after, of course, took care of the resize to its measure. The time, we do not say it enough, is democracy. Look, to convince you, an Ahmadinejad or Putin: note how scrupulous attention they do everything to appear as winners of elections beyond reproach. Remember Laurent Gbagbo. He never said: “I remain in power,” but only “I won the presidential election. “Africa provides many other examples of pure juice Democrats, re-elected voting in elections, as ineradicable Paul Biya in Cameroon.

heart of our very old and, we believe, very democratic Europe we have a perfect example of what might be called a dictatorship to democracy or face, if you will, being a democracy metamorphosis autocratic. This is the hilarious Hungary Viktor Orban. I had the opportunity to engage readers to match a picture of the character, at the long interview I conducted with him in Budapest. At the time, however, the wolf was not completely out of the woods. Hungary assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union, and Orban, clever, was somewhat muted his convictions. Today, he revealed. His opponents, standing KO, discovered on January 1, they were now living in a new state, governed by a new constitution. Events, emotions Brussels, irritation of France, homeland of human rights, always ready to give lessons in democracy if they do not cost too much (in this respect, Hungarians are more tractable than the Turks …), nothing works. Viktor Orban, and, as they say in Budapest, may be innocent, “How? It dares to criticize us! We were elected by the people, and he gave us two thirds of the seats in Parliament. Our Constitution and all laws that you dispute were duly passed by the House. “And the Hungarian Prime Minister said, hand on heart:” You will never find more Democratic than me! “

he’s right, the guy! All his arguments are true, yet he makes fun of us because his project is truly tyrannical. It is now, under our noses, to install a power for life. But he, in fact, the intelligence to do so in vogue today is to say respecting the form of democracy to better betray the bottom. Our man is a great creator. It is the dictatorship that was Yves Saint Laurent haute couture. The best evidence is our embarrassment, not only act, but also to judge his conduct. The indignation over, we still hear, in France as elsewhere, many people wonder. What, exactly, the nature of the regime Orban? For it is true that he was democratically elected and that many Hungarians support it. We’re back to the old problem raised by Plato: “If the people want a tyrant …” Some take it for a man of far right and merge with the party Jobbik, which is a complete error. Others emphasize the responsibility of socialists who preceded him and were discredited by scandal. Who to believe and think? Viktor Orban likes nothing better than this uncertainty and, abandoning his strokes chin, then he smiled her beautiful blue eyes looking at you, with the air of saying (in Hungarian): “How do you think I’m dangerous? “

“It is the dictatorship that was Yves Saint Laurent haute couture”

Well, if! Orban is dangerous. We should not assess the risk in proportion to the power of Hungary. This small country is neither Russia nor Iran … The danger of the regime Orban is not the means of international action, but in his example. There is risk of contagion. For the enemy of democracy today is more a competing model, as in Soviet times. The danger is a caricature, subversion from within, the transformation of democracy into its opposite, by the action of parties that present themselves as democratic, but feed a project that is not Republican. The Hungarian experience in the heart of the European Union, is an example only unfortunate, fatal. That’s why it is necessary to disassemble and take off the masks.
The method of Orban to install an authoritarian regime can be summarized in three points: playing on the contradictions of the country heal its reputation democratic inject in institutions, the virus that block and prevent any rotation.

contradictions, Hungary does not lack. The old Magyar nation is an island in the middle of the Asian peoples Germanic, Slavic and Latin. But this island, placed in a plain indefensible, has not ceased to be plowed by violence from outside, the latest being forced Sovietization in 1948. The country feels both truly European and mistreated by the rest of Europe, which was amputated in 1920, two thirds of its territory by the famous Treaty of Trianon. Orban always plays this contradiction. Hungary has experienced a golden age from 1867 to 1914, a refined civilization and cosmopolitan, rich in designers, painters, writers, musicians. The Hungarian Democrats, especially the intellectuals in contact with foreign countries, those who demonstrate today against the new Constitution, refer to the modern golden age.

Orban, by his humble origins, his taste for popular sports and country life, was able to oppose them another Hungary, that of the heroic gesture of medieval Arpad king, great conqueror and father of the nation. In doing so, he cuts the grass under the feet of the extreme right by getting its own benefit, the themes of identity. He managed to persuade a majority of its citizens THERE ARE values ??”purely Hungarian ‘higher ideas’ foreign’, especially the Republic. The first of these values ??would be national strength, the famous “Kuruc” he claims to embody.
This use of the contradictions of the country to build an anti-EU, nationalist pride and advocating greater the resistance that democracy is applicable elsewhere, if not everywhere. Every country in Europe, starting with France, has, from a different history, references “national” it is easy to object to the laborious process of European Union, the democratic constraints, the risk of freedom. In the current election campaign in our country, calls for withdrawal, resistance against the foreigner, to return to the golden age of the inter-se is no shortage … Orban is an unfortunate example, in the times of peril.

An old misunderstanding

Democratic Orban reputation stems from an old misunderstanding: he fought against communism. During the Cold War, the West was firing on all cylinders against the Soviets and easily awarded to “men of freedom” of patents democracy. Bin Laden himself … Being Orban was confused too quickly the nationalist struggle and the struggle for democracy. However, the patent of democracy, there is Orban. He argues that he freely left office after losing the elections in 2002, and his party, Fidesz, is legal. All its decisions are carefully packed in paper democracy. For example, his proposed trial of communist crimes is presented as an advanced law, while the process is a trap set to rival Socialists. Similarly, the right to vote granted to Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries is presented as a democratic progress, then it is a dangerous electoral process, to get the votes of these communities, the risk of resurrecting the specter Great Hungary.
Again, the method is dangerously exportable.

Many other countries, and ours is no exception, are authoritarian party-oriented, but that handle the double talk and know their projects liberty-coated in a supposedly Republican phraseology. Inject deadly viruses in the body democratic Orban began with a press law which, under the guise of imitating our CSA has established a strong locking system of freedom of expression. In recent weeks, the Central Bank which lost its independence. The new Constitution completes the lock, setting up a voting system very favorable to Fidesz. In addition, numerous recent laws strengthen the control of power on the political and economic life. There is also a widespread infiltration of key positions by men of the Prime Minister. Most frightening is that this system under control remains formally a republic. Orban shows, and the lesson should be learned, that democracy, unlike what we thought since Montesquieu, is not just a case of institutions. The three powers, and even the fourth, the press, may well be formally balanced, there is no real democracy if political change is impossible.

To be honest, I do not believe the success of the policy Orban. His country is too economically dependent on Europe for its experience can be carried as far as Putin’s (his mentor) in Russia. I hope the EU will use the weapons at its disposal to thwart the robbery of Orban of Hungary.
But this victory, assuming it happens, will not help if one does not draw the whole teaching of the case. There may be, tomorrow, Orban in other countries, perhaps in ours, if we do not defend democracy against those who claim to destroy it.