the The Wall Street Journal According to his article, the democracy summit convened by President Joe Biden instead of uniting the participants became divisive and highlighted the contradictions in US foreign policy.
“It may seem that the aim of the summit is to brand the current US president as the savior of democracy, while whoever sympathizes with his predecessor as illegitimate. An example of this is the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is one of the favorites of the Republicans, but so far he has not been invited to any democratic summit. Remember the paper.
Then he added, It is true that Orbán’s populism has destroyed Hungarian democracy, Freedom House classifies Hungary as “partly free,” and Sweden’s V-Dem Institute calls it an “electoral autocracy” since 2020.
But this does not mean less democracy than Iraq, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
which are all invited to the summit.”
The author of the article stated, Orban’s exclusion is not the only stark contrast. V-Dem’s roster of authoritarian regimes in the past decade includes five countries on the invite list: Brazil, India, Mauritius, Poland and Serbia. Five did not: El Salvador, Hungary, Thailand, Tunisia and Turkey. If there is a matter to this madness, it is not clear at this point.” – can be read in the Wall Street Journal.
Editorial photo: Facebook
