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Hungary is in trouble, says former Hungarian MP

At the end of the 1980s, Zsuzsanna Szelényi was a young pro-democracy activist, who celebrated the collapse of totalitarianism and joined a liberal Hungarian youth movement, Fidesz.

The party was committed to the building of a free, democratic Hungary, but has since morphed and is now a conservative, nationalist and populist political movement.

“Hungary is in trouble,” and is diverting from the Western way of life, Ms Szelényi told the ѿý Hardtalk programme’s Stephen Sackur.

While in Fidesz, Ms Szelényi believed it to be in a party of the West.

“It was a liberal, alternative and radical organisation - it was how we defined ourselves," she said.

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