German MEP Alexander Lambsdorff urged the European Commission to investigate a possible "systematic violation of European values" by the Hungarian government ahead of the vote, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reports.

BBC: Hungary defies critics over change to constitution

And with some senior liberals like Count Otto Lambsdorff, an ex-economics minister, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, an ex-foreign minister, not standing for the next parliament, many pundits expect the party to sink first into irrelevance and then oblivion.

ECONOMIST: Germany