The annulment was controversial; even some of Georgescu’s leftist detractors argued that the decision was anti-democratic.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
From liberal to nationalist Beloved by many older and more rural Hungarians and reviled by detractors, Orbán has emerged as the country’s most consequential leader since its transition to democracy at the end of the Cold War.
According to the critic John Ruskin, the disaster was called Raphael.
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Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
But conservative critics argue any new legal status would amount to amnesty — pushback that reached a fever pitch online and in conservative media this month.
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