Gáspár Gróh

Gáspár Gróh

Gáspár Gróh (1953, Budapest), literary historian and critic, has been an Editor of Magyar Szemle journal since 1996. He is Head of the Office of Former President Ferenc Mádl. He was Editor of the weekly Magyar Napló in 1988–90, and of Heti Magyarország (1991–94). He has published several collections of essays on 20th century Hungarian literature. He received the President’s Order of Merit in 2005.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN HUNGARY, 2018

If we regard free elections as the celebration of democracy, we cannot rule out the possibility for campaigns to become a disgrace to that democracy. In 1843, Baron Zsigmond Kemény, the Hungarian novelist and the most incisive critic of public affairs of his day, published a pamphlet entitled Canvassing and