The Hungarians were not too excited about the Winter Olympics: they don’t have major winter sports heroes or a winter sport they are particularly keen on. It is elections that serve as the nation’s adrenaline-packed national sport. On election nights people gather in front of the TV with cases of beer and stay up late watching and commenting on the course of the elections in individual electoral districts as intently as if it was the world football championship. In the middle of the Olympic Games the opposition FIDESZ party erected a billboard in front of the Hungarian parliament showing a […]