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József Szájer

József Szájer

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József Szájer drafted Orbán's 2011 Fundamental Law, a constitution pushed through by Fidesz's two-thirds majority and adopted on 18 April 2011; he boasted of writing it on an iPad (24.hu). His career collapsed in December 2020 when Belgian police caught him fleeing a lockdown-breaking party in Brussels, and he quit Fidesz on 1 December, with Orbán calling his conduct indefensible (Telex). Bottom line: the architect of a 'family values' constitution undone by the hypocrisy of his own conduct (Wikipedia).

Hyper-presidential exceptional measures, 2022 constitution, closed electoral certification

Kais Saied

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President of Tunisia since 23 October 2019 (Wikidata Q16120878). The through-line is 25 July 2021 power concentration: Article 80 used to freeze parliament, a 2022 constitution ISIE recorded as 94.6 percent yes on 30.5 percent turnout, then 90.69 percent in 2024 on 28.8 percent turnout — not an Arab Spring clerk. Still in office at apply.

LNA eastern parallel command, anti-Islamist unification rhetoric, oil-terminal coercion treated as compatible with hereditary succession

Khalifa Haftar

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Commander of Libya’s self-styled National Army, the eastern parallel power (Wikidata Q2298768). The through-line is warlord governance: the 4 April 2019 Tripoli offensive launched while the UN Secretary-General was in the country, January 2020 oil-terminal closures NOC blamed on LNA orders, and an August 2025 decree making son Saddam deputy commander. A living commander is scored on those instruments, not as an anti-terror saint.

Kinga Gál

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Kinga Gál has sat in the European Parliament for Fidesz since 2004, a twenty-year insider who now helps lead the far right. Re-elected a Fidesz vice-president in November 2023 (Telex), she was named first vice-president of the Patriots for Europe group on 8 July 2024, the alliance Orbán built with Marine Le Pen's camp (Politico). Her parliament record shows the move (European Parliament). Bottom line: a long-serving MEP who became the Brussels face of Orbán's alliance with the nationalist right.

Kyrsten Sinema

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Kyrsten Sinema, a senator from Arizona from 2019 to 2025, joined Joe Manchin and every Republican in January 2022 to block a filibuster change that would have passed voting-rights legislation (Wikipedia). Arizona Democrats censured her (NPR). In December 2022 she left the party to become an independent while keeping her committee seats through the Democratic majority, and in March 2024 she declined to seek re-election. Bottom line: a senator who sank her party's agenda and then walked away.

Lajos Kósa

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Lajos Kósa, Fidesz parliamentary leader from September 2015 (Index) and minister without portfolio for the Modern Cities Programme from October 2017 (24.hu), embarrassed himself in March 2018. He was reported to have been entrusted by a Csenger woman, who claimed a multi-billion-euro German inheritance, with buying government bonds, a story HVG called an impossible lie (HVG). Prosecutors later treated him only as a witness while the woman faced fraud charges (24.hu). Bottom line: a senior minister who was either duped or complicit in an absurd inheritance scheme.