Irish Examiner view: Opportunity to end Viktor Orbán's ill-fitting vision

Hungary goes to the polls this weekend and, for the first time since 2010, the Fidesz party is looking down the barrel of defeat

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán's vision of illiberal nationalism has shown itself to be a complete dead end. Picture: Denes Erdos/AP

Viktor Orbán’s vision of illiberal nationalism has shown itself to be a complete dead end, which has made the country he presides over a much poorer place and less free for those living there.

This weekend, Hungary goes to the polls and — for the first time since 2010, when his Fidesz party won a two-thirds majority in parliament, allowing it to alter the constitution and create a bastion of Christian values and conservatism in a secular and liberal EU — Orbán is looking down the barrel of defeat.