The Opposition to the Mafia State
The Opposition to the Mafia State

Author(s): Zoltán Ripp
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Hungary;Mafia state;Orbán’s government;
Summary/Abstract: The lasting persistence of the political regime that came into being after 2010 required the neutralization of its opposition, that is, integration into the system. In a 2009 speech delivered in Kötcse, Viktor Orbán explained in unambiguous terms the kind of party relations he intended to create in the new regime replacing the democratic republic: The dual party system will end—in the following fifteen to twenty years a central field of power will evolve to define the political landscape. The hegemonic government party will monopolize power and formulate the national agenda to be upheld in a straightforward manner by precluding “unnecessary debates about values.” This hegemonic system maintaining the facade of parliamentarism is not be sustained by doing away with the opposition but by integrating it in a subordinate position, rendering it unsuitable to gain power as a player in a rotational party system.

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