Orbán: Young people see Fidesz as old, tired, and boring

The Bálványos Free Summer University and Student Camp (more commonly known as Tusványos) has been organised in Baile Tusnad (or Bálványos) Transylvania since 1990.

Over the years it became a large-scale intellectual workshop of the Carpathian Basin, with tens of thousands in attendance.

It was originally intended to promote cross-border cooperation, Romanian-Hungarian dialogue and a cultured political exchange between Hungarians with differing opinions.

According to critics, during the four consecutive Orbán governments after 2010, it had become a place where members of the Orbán government and representatives of the intellectual establishment close to the regime were able to express their ideas without substantive debate.

It was here that Viktor Orbán first spoke about building an “illiberal democracy’ in 2014, and his speeches have become the highlight of the event and are largely considered to be marking the direction of Fidesz’ politics for the year ahead.

This year, for the first time in sixteen years, Fidesz's longtime leader spoke as an opposition politician before a crowd eager for direction after the party's historic election loss in April.