Hungarian Politics against the Background of the Second Stage of Pandemia

• Main Author: Lyubov Shishelina
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Institute of Europe Russian Academy of Sciences 2020-05-01
• Series: Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН
• Subjects: hungary; coronavirus; political parties; elections; strikes; opposition
• Online Access: http://vestnikieran.instituteofeurope.ru/images/Shishelina52020.pdf

The article analyzes current trends of Hungarian politics that prevailed in 2020 against the background of the state’s fight against the pandemic. Among them are the old ones, presented by the conflict between liberal and conservative camps of politicians, and the new ones, which had become result of the changes in the lives of various segments of society, dictated by the global resistance to the pandemic. The author comes to the conclusion that new forces are emerging in the political amphitheater of the country, which have sufficient pressure, but are not yet as determined as the generation of the second half of the 1980’s to openly challenge the drawbacks of post-socialist political system that has developed over the past 30 years. Nevertheless, they have some potential to influence the national and regional political mainstream. This phenomenon is not ignored by the main conflicting parties, who are trying to find various forms of interaction with them in accordance with the existing opportunities within the current political alignment.