By Eva S. Balogh, who taught at Yale Uni: In the last few days, a relatively trivial affair has become the subject of a 'huge fracas' in the overheated atmosphere of the Hungarian political scene.
Budapest mayor Karácsony, who will likely be one of the opposition forces’ candidates in the running to face PM Orbán at the next election, gave an interview to The Economist in which the conversation turned to the political differences between him and the leader of Fidesz.
After itemizing some of the obvious ones, Karácsony jokingly added that “he is short and fat, and I am tall and slim”. Karácsony later apologized for the remark, but it nonetheless started an avalanche of exchanges which doesn’t want to subside...
