Is «illiberal democracy» authoritarianism in disguise?

«Just because a state isn't liberal doesn't mean it can't be a democracy». In 2014, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, irritated at receiving lessons in democracy, assumed his «illiberalism». Is this just a publicity stunt?

Illiberalism’ is above all an ambiguous concept. For its detractors, it is used to denounce the authoritarian measures of Viktor Orbán's regime - likened to a dictatorship by former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The Hungarian Prime Minister, for his part, has been publicly asserting his illiberalism for some ten years.

In the 1990s, the Indo-American journalist Fareed Zakaria coined the concept of «illiberal democracy» to designate regimes that dissociate democracy and political liberalism, understood as pluralism and pluralism.