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Andras Simor, the bank's governor, has survived repeated calls from Fidesz for his resignation (as well as a large salary cut).

Hungarian democracy is not about to collapse, although the new constitution institutionalises Fidesz's centralising drive.

Fidesz promises to reduce taxes and the burdensome bureaucracy, and thus create a million new jobs over the next decade.

Ever since Viktor Orban's Fidesz party won two-thirds of the parliamentary seats in April's general election, the signals have been ominous.

Fidesz, Mr Orban's party, can justly claim to have inherited a mess from its Socialist predecessor.

Received wisdom has long held that the big guns of Fidesz and the Socialists would not fire on each other, for fear of retaliation.

Fidesz promised tax cuts, a simplified bureaucracy and a crackdown on corruption and criminality.

Viktor Orban, leader of the opposition Fidesz party, laments that more than 80% of the financial system is "in foreigners' hands" .

Zoltan Kovacs, Fidesz's communications minister, says that foreign-currency debt is now a strategic issue.

Mr Orban has been moving Fidesz smartly towards the centre in the run-up to next year's election, which polls suggest he will win easily.

With nearly all the votes counted from the parliamentary elections in Hungary, the centre-right party Fidesz has won a landslide victory.

It would have created 900 jobs but Fidesz argued (wrongly) that it involved technology banned in the European Union.

In Northeast Hungary, an independent candidate backed by the far-right narrowly defeated his Fidesz rival.

Hungary's parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's centre-right Fidesz party, adopted the new citizenship law last May.

A new class of oligarchs, several with close ties to Fidesz, is building up business empires, fuelled by generous government contracts.

Analysts predict a landslide victory for Fidesz against the ruling Socialists.

Fidesz also backed a referendum to block private investment in the failing national health service.

Outsiders must hope that Fidesz can contain the genies it has so casually unbottled.

Such measures will make it much harder for the opposition to wrest control from Fidesz.

An obscure Fidesz MP, Oszkar Molnar, complained last month about "Jewish capital wanting to devour Hungary" .

Fidesz won an unprecedented two-thirds majority in April's general election.

Fidesz also sometimes co-operates with the far right in local government.

The centre-right Fidesz won a resounding victory in the second round of voting in Hungary's general election.

Mr. Orban's Fidesz party won two-thirds of the assembly's 386-seats in last month's general elections.

Two-thirds of voters now back Fidesz, against 23% for the Socialists.

A new bill also gives the majority party (ie, Fidesz) a decisive say in choosing the constitutional court's judges