Heti Válasz

Heti Válasz ( " Weekly Answer ") is a right-wing conservative, pro-government, Hungarian weekly.

History

The newspaper was founded in 2001 by the center-right government of Viktor Orbán, as an alternative to the post-communist newspapers. In the first years practiced István Elek, a green essayist and former member of parliament of the conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum, a strong influence on the editorial staff. In 2004, the sheet almost broke, but was taken over by other businesses, however, do not want to interfere in the editorial life. Under István Elek, the tide understood as ecologically and conservative.

Today's situation

The profile of the newspaper has changed a lot since retiring from István Elek. The newspaper distanced himself from the Fidesz party, which was formerly the founder and entered his own way. Ideologically, however, it is close to the middle-class opposition, but also with her she comes to critical. The new editor in chief, Gábor Borókai want to be leaf position itself as Hungarian counterpart to FOCUS. The Heti Válasz is the only newspaper in Hungary, whose support is increasing every week. Among the most famous journalists of the newspaper include András Stumpf, Balázs Ablonczy, Szilárd Szönyi, Ágnes Osztovits, Anita Élő, Márton Devich or István Dévényi. In this newspaper publish the neoconservative intellectuals in Hungary, Foreign Minister János Martonyi as the present one, the philosopher, or historian of ideas Lánczi András Ferenc Horkay Hörcher. Besides these, green intellectuals to speak, as the sociologist András Lányi or the fundamental ecological philosopher János Sebeök come. Nevertheless, the Heti Válasz regarded as the mouthpiece of the neo-conservative wing of the bourgeois opposition, and therefore it differs from the anti-globalist line the rest of the opposition daily and weekly newspapers in Hungary.

International attention the magazine in 2010, when she reproached Paul Lendvai Spitzeltum for the Hungarian State Security. However Lendvai was able to refute the allegations credible.

An explosive discovery was made by the Hungarian weekly Magyar Narancs 2012, namely that Fidesz local governments -bought higher sums of money, Heti Válasz a positive reporting.