Hungary’s parliamentary elections offered voters distinct alternatives and were well run, but while competitive, the process was marred by the pervasive overlapping of government and ruling coalition’s messaging that blurred the line between state and party, as well as by media bias and opaque campaign funding, international observers said in a statement this Monday. The […]

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has proposed a full election observation mission to Hungary for the April 3 parliamentary elections, the major Hungarian blog on EU affairs, Eurologus reports. So far, only EU member country where such a mission was deemed necessary has been Bulgaria. The so-called needs assessment mission studied […]