Hungary’s political rights rating declined from 1, the best rank, to 2 “due to an election campaign that demonstrated the diminished space for fair competition given legislative and other advantages accrued by the ruling party,” the FH report said.

It cited Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as saying that a democracy should not necessarily be of a liberal nature. Freedom House in its reports ranks countries with a score of 1-2,5 in the two above categories as free countries.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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Highlights from Freedom House’s annual report on political rights and civil liberties