Hungary's Corruption Reckoning Runs on Court Time, Not Public Time
Hungary's prime minister, Peter Magyar, has vowed to dismantle Orban's corrupt networks, and high-profile figures are being arrested, Deutsche Welle reports. Many Hungarians are pushing for swift accountability. DW's own caveat is that the rule of law takes time — which is less a defense of delay than a description of how prosecutions actually move. The political problem is the mismatch: an electorate that has just watched a system come apart rarely calibrates its patience to a court's schedule.
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The observation that the rule of law takes time isn't a plea for slowness. It's a reminder that cases built on documents and testimony have a tempo of their own.
Time is also the resource that entrenched networks are best at using. The same sentence can read as patience or as inertia, depending on who benefits from the wait.