As Orban runs for re-election, Hungary’s opposition fears fraud

VIKTOR ORBANMPEU, Hungary’s prime minister and a hero to populists in Europe and America, faces a general election on April 3rd. Hungary’s complicated electoral system has grown more so during Mr Orban’s 12-year tenure. This is no accident: the changes are designed to keep his Fidesz party in power.In 2014 the share of s elected from single-member constituencies was raised to 106 out of the 199 seats in parliament. (The rest are elected by proportional representation.) Single-member districts tend to favour Fidesz, the biggest party—the more so as they have often been gerrymandered. In 2018 Fidesz won 91 of them. Overall, it translated just under half of the popular vote into a two-thirds majority in parliament, a supermajority that has allowed Mr Orban and his cronies to change the constitution, pack the courts and channel billions of euros in aid to their allies.