Last Thursday the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to express its concern over Hungary’s scheduled presidency of the EU Council. The deplorable state of Hungarian democracy is by now widely known. Since 2010, prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party have systematically undermined the principles and institutions that underpin democratic governance. They have worked to curtail EU values such as academic freedom, gender equality and LGBTI+ rights, most recently in their copy-paste Russian law, which bans the visibility of the LGBTI+ community in public spaces. A core principle of any democracy is free and fair elections. Under Orbán’s leadership, this...