Gérard Araud – The insolent health of the populist international

Victor Orban has just won the general elections in Hungary for the fourth time. Admittedly, the media there are controlled by the state and have hardly covered the opposition campaign; Admittedly, the electoral law is iniquitous, but the fact remains that the large majority – 56% – which voted for the candidates of the Prime Minister’s party proves that the latter continues to enjoy the confidence of Hungarians .

Orban was immediately congratulated by the Italian Salvini. He has become the hero of all those who advocate a conservative and nationalist populist policy. He has, in fact, demonstrated that a policy which is, in form, aggressive, authoritarian and Manichaean, and in substance, hostile to the European Union abroad and to minorities, immigrants or LGBT, to l. ..