Attilla Melegh
Attila Melegh is senior researcher at Demographic Research Institute, Budapest and lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest. He also lectures in a teaching excellence program in Russia and has done so before in Russia and Georgia. His current research covers comparative demographic attitudes, discourses, demographic structures, international migration and global social change.
Reflections on the Hungarian Election
The results of Hungary’s April 8 elections were the product of a complex process encompassing institutional elements, the fragmented state of the political opposition, the ongoing campaign against refugees, and the delegitimization of democracy against the backdrop of capitalist transformation in Eastern Europe. Hungary’s electoral laws were amended by the previous Orbán government in 2012, mixing direct elections in individual constituencies and a proportional system elected through party lists with a compensation system by which the votes of direct elections are added to the list vote according to a predefined key.[1]