Toroczkai said Fidesz had created the election system allowing "an authoritarian system to be built" in a country where the Fundamental Law was being violated, the president of the republic and constitutional judges were threatened and then fired, a state party was being established, and a significant part of the opposition was "simply excluded from the elections".

In his speech, Orban "told truth about" the new government led by Peter Magyar, the new system and the global economy, Toroczkai said. But with a few exceptions, he did not talk about his own mistakes, "and apparently he still does not understand what led to his election defeat," he added.

He said Fidesz had created an election system allowing all this, where the constitution can be changed with a 53 percent victory.

 "Two years ago, Our Homeland launched an initiative to make the election system more proportionate, but Fidesz was not interested," Toroczkai said.

He accused Fidesz of "arrogance" and of favouring "elitist, condescending, opportunist figures" over activists committed to ideals.

This led to "the extravagance, the counter-selection and corruption" increasingly dominating the entire public administration, Toroczkai said. "And this was what created Peter Magyar as well," he added.

Torocikai said it was pointless of Orban to say that Fidesz needed to learn digital warfare tactics when his failings had been primarily a matter of credibility, not just a technical issue. "It does not help that leading Fidesz politicians are taking low-cost flights when they used to fly private jets at a cost of hundreds of millions," he said.

Orban, he added, hoped in vain that Fidesz could regain its former strength after "the bad governance of the Tisza Party or the energy crisis".

"There may be a strong patriotic force against the Tisza Party, but that will require committed activists, and not the kind of scoundrels that Fidesz has relied on, and from whose ranks Hungary's new prime minister, Peter Magyar, also emerged," he said.

Source: MTI – Hungary’s national news agency since 1881.

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