Sunday, February 18, 2024

This is the super-scandal that should bring down Viktor Orbán – and it’s far from over

Novák symbolised the child-protection agenda, having served as minister for families and hosted the Budapest demographic summit, which brought together rightwing luminaries from Italy's Giorgia Meloni and former US vice-president Mike Pence to Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. 

While Novák's role as Hungary's president was largely ceremonial, she travelled the globe, discussing "the protection of traditional values and families" with Florida governor Ron DeSantis and even meeting tech mogul Elon Musk. With the rotten core of Orbán's regime laid bare, one wonders how such summits will spin the narrative of family values in future. 

Because to many of us, it has seemed clear that Orbán's government uses child protection as a smokescreen for the repression of LGBTQ+ activists and for attacking western liberalism…

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