It has also exposed what little power even high-ranking political figures wield under Orban's de facto one-person rule: at the drop of a hat, he appears ready to dispose of close allies, even the supposedly independent president of the republic, to avoid accountability himself.
Details of such pardons are typically kept opaque, but it was announced at the time that the far-right activist Gyorgy Budahazy, convicted of terrorism and a range of other violent offences, was among them with Budahazy riding out of jail on a horse.
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