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'It's a boring joke,' Viktor Orbán says after MEPs declare Hungary an electoral autocracy

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'It's a boring joke,' Viktor Orbán says after MEPs declare Hungary an electoral autocracy

'It's a boring joke,' Viktor Orbán says after MEPs declare Hungary an electoral autocracy

"The only reason we don’t laugh at it is because we’re bored of it," the Hungarian Prime Minister said in reaction to the European Parliament's report.


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