Within Hungary, critics argue that the referendum helps the government of Viktor Orbán to distract from its domestic failures. To do so, his government has unleashed what research by Transparency International suggests is the largest advertising campaign in Hungarian history. We’ll beat them up!”Hungary’s rights campaigners say that the referendum campaign has turned an already dark public discourse into something far worse. “The mood is quite reminiscent of the 1930s,” said Márta Pardavi, co-chair of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee rights group. “It’s a government campaign, not a party campaign, and the government is putting lots of funds into crony companies for their advertising.”On the high street in Mártély, few seemed to care.

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2016 22:45 UTC