But the Hungarian right wing has used its campaign against pedophilia to target homosexuals and the transgender community. Ordinarily, such a move wouldn’t cause much if any backlash. Last month, the Hungarian parliament passed legislation increasing the sentences for those convicted of sexually abusing minors. He has cynically demonized immigrants to boost his political standing at home.īut now he may have gone too far with his attack on an unlikely (and universally unliked) group of people. He has lashed out against Eurocrats in Brussels. Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán loves a good enemy.
