Ukraine, which no longer holds elections, is ahead of Hungary in
terms of democracy, according to a major German media group index that
references 10 experts, nine of whom are directly funded by billionaire
oligarch George Soros and his Open Society Foundations.
The results were produced by the German Bertelsmann Foundation’s
democracy index, which was published in the print edition of the media
group’s Frankfurter Allurement Zeitung,
Despite Hungary having a functioning and vibrant democracy that
includes actual elections, the index claims that the country is less
democratic than Ukraine, which is under martial law, has banned
opposition parties, and has no elections.
According to the paper’s analyst, the new EU member states have made
huge political and economic progress since 2004, with only Poland and
Hungary representing or still representing a “politically authoritarian
tendency.”
“Despite the country’s EU membership, Fidesz, led by Viktor Orbán and
in power since 2010, has seriously undermined Hungary’s initially
well-functioning democracy,” claims Ralph M. Wrobel, who argues that
without pressure from Brussels, Poland and Hungary would have become
fully authoritarian states.
It is worth noting, however, that the Bertelsmann Foundation’s
biannual ranking is based on the opinions of country experts, not on
facts.
“Nine of the ten ‘independent experts on Hungary’ are from Political
Capital. Political Capital, founded by a former SZDSZ member, which
received contracts worth hundreds of millions of forints from the
previous Socialist governments of Ferenc Gyurcsány and Gordon Bajnai for
communications consultancy, and of course among its supporters we find
the Open Society Foundations led by George Soros,” government spokesman
Zoltán Kovács pointed out earlier.
Kovács added that the Bertelsmann Group is the owner of RTL
Television, among others. In a previous analysis, Hungarian news portal
Mandiner pointed out that the group had woven its way into the EU institutions by hiding behind pro-Europeanism.
Source: Remix News
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