In this year’s election campaign, argue Katinka Linnamäki and Emilia Palonen, Orbán is facing a formidable, new force. Emerging from the Fidesz cadres in 2023, Péter Magyar launched his attack on Orbán. He has since managed to avoid many of the pitfalls of polarisation that have favoured Orbán previously
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
Katinka has a background in Gender Studies (University of Vienna) and Philology (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest).
Her research interests are right-wing populism and gender politics in Hungary, feminist activities, and possible ways of emancipation and resistance.
Her doctoral thesis is organised around the concept of hegemony, the question of what role gender and familialism plays in hegemony building, and how nationalism, populism, and gender are related.
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