László Andor is associate professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. His book ’Hungary on the Road to the European Union (Transition in Blue)’ was published in the US by Praeger in 2000.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.