Finally, the Orbán government used constitutional hardball to tilt the electoral playing field. First, it packed the Electoral Commission, which prior to 2010 was appointed via multiparty consensus. Five of the ten seats were filled by delegates of each of the five largest parties in parliament, while the other five were filled by mutual agreement between the government and the opposition. This ensured that no single party controlled the electoral process. Fidesz abandoned this practice and filled all five nondelegate seats with loyalists, thereby giving itself a controlling majority on the
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