HOW TO RIG AN ELECTORAL LANDSLIDE, HUNGARIAN-STYLE
- Start with a 2/3 supermajority, generated by a smear campaign and inciting mobs to violence
- Gerrymander the electoral districts
- Adopt laws to control the media
- Buy up the media
- Recruit and buy up corrupt oligarchs
- Re-write the constitution
- Adopt new laws and amendments whenever desired
- Retire the judiciary and appoint your own
- Take over the national bank presidency
- Take over private pensions
- Nationalise businesses and properties, then re-privatize to cronies
- Conduct press and police campaigns to smear the opposition
- Use EU subsidies to fund government electoral campaign
- Limit electoral campaigning in media
- Fund private foundations to do limitless media promotion of government
- Use taxes and subsidies to lower utility costs to disguise economic decline
- Blame all economic ills on opposition
- Oblige tenement owners to advertise utility savings
- Enfranchise non-citizens in adjoining countries to vote; facilitate their voting
- Make it as difficult as possible for citizens living abroad to vote (misinformation, red tape)
- Fund the fraudulent creation of many bogus opposition parties to create confusion in the ballot box
- Have oligarchs buy up all poster campaign space for government posters
- Adopt laws restricting campaign posting in public view
- Use media control to foster a popular climate of hatred toward the opposition and xenophobia toward the outside world
- Borrow bail-out funds at extortionate rates from Russia for nuclear plant building
- Use the loan to fund “Hungary is Performing Better” campaign
- Leak innuendos and initiate criminal proceedings against the opposition weekly, dropping them once they prove groundless and have already done their damage
Grof Tamas - 10 years ago
It is difficult to guess, but my worst case scenario is that Fidesz will loose slightly and form a coalition with Jobbik.
Karl Pfeifer - 10 years ago
I guess Fidesz will get most of the votes
45% Fidesz
30% Opposition
20% Jobbik
5% LMP
David Sade - 10 years ago
They will win because:
1. As long as the FIDESZ rules 90% of the media, they will stay in power. AND as long as they stay in power, they will rule the media. The circle of dictatorship is full and closed!
2. And I am happy that the FIDESZ will win; let them eat what have cooked... Let them have a country that is completely ruined socially, economically, politically, etc....; eat will eat them up too! Orwell's 1984 is haunting the 21st century Hungary.
3. Hungarians at large are not very well educated (and I am being very nice about this...), they are afraid of their own Government, afraid for their jobs, etc... But foremost, Imre Kertesz was right...
4. It is only a question of time when the people in spite of their limited embracement of democracy, will have enough and will rise up against this dictatorship.
HOW TO RIG AN ELECTORAL LANDSLIDE, HUNGARIAN-STYLE
- Start with a 2/3 supermajority, generated by a smear campaign and inciting mobs to violence
- Gerrymander the electoral districts
- Adopt laws to control the media
- Buy up the media
- Recruit and buy up corrupt oligarchs
- Re-write the constitution
- Adopt new laws and amendments whenever desired
- Retire the judiciary and appoint your own
- Take over the national bank presidency
- Take over private pensions
- Nationalise businesses and properties, then re-privatize to cronies
- Conduct press and police campaigns to smear the opposition
- Use EU subsidies to fund government electoral campaign
- Limit electoral campaigning in media
- Fund private foundations to do limitless media promotion of government
- Use taxes and subsidies to lower utility costs to disguise economic decline
- Blame all economic ills on opposition
- Oblige tenement owners to advertise utility savings
- Enfranchise non-citizens in adjoining countries to vote; facilitate their voting
- Make it as difficult as possible for citizens living abroad to vote (misinformation, red tape)
- Fund the fraudulent creation of many bogus opposition parties to create confusion in the ballot box
- Have oligarchs buy up all poster campaign space for government posters
- Adopt laws restricting campaign posting in public view
- Use media control to foster a popular climate of hatred toward the opposition and xenophobia toward the outside world
- Borrow bail-out funds at extortionate rates from Russia for nuclear plant building
- Use the loan to fund “Hungary is Performing Better” campaign
- Leak innuendos and initiate criminal proceedings against the opposition weekly, dropping them once they prove groundless and have already done their damage
It is difficult to guess, but my worst case scenario is that Fidesz will loose slightly and form a coalition with Jobbik.
I guess Fidesz will get most of the votes
45% Fidesz
30% Opposition
20% Jobbik
5% LMP
They will win because:
1. As long as the FIDESZ rules 90% of the media, they will stay in power. AND as long as they stay in power, they will rule the media. The circle of dictatorship is full and closed!
2. And I am happy that the FIDESZ will win; let them eat what have cooked... Let them have a country that is completely ruined socially, economically, politically, etc....; eat will eat them up too! Orwell's 1984 is haunting the 21st century Hungary.
3. Hungarians at large are not very well educated (and I am being very nice about this...), they are afraid of their own Government, afraid for their jobs, etc... But foremost, Imre Kertesz was right...
4. It is only a question of time when the people in spite of their limited embracement of democracy, will have enough and will rise up against this dictatorship.