Viktor Orban accuses Hungarian prime minister of creating ‘illegitimate authoritarian system’

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Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban today accused his successor, Peter Magyar, of creating an “illegitimate authoritarian system” in remarks delivered at a press conference hosted outside his party’s headquarters in Budapest. 

​“This new political system is not a democracy, it is tyranny,” he said.

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