Is Participatory Local Democracy the Antidote to Far-Right Populism? Hungarians are About to Find Out

The European Parliamentary elections on 9 June drastically reshaped the Hungarian political landscape. Péter Magyar’s new party, Tisza, received 30% of the votes, the highest percentage an opposition party has ever got in Viktor Orbán’s system. Magyar, the ex-husband of Fidesz’s former justice minister Judit Varga and the former director of several Hungarian state-owned companies, [...]