Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar is launching his election campaign and says he can return Hungary to a stronger European path.

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar launched his party’s election campaign in Budapest on Sunday, vowing to restore Hungary’s Western orientation just eight weeks before he faces Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a pivotal vote.

Magyar, a former insider in Orbán’s nationalist Fidesz party, burst onto Hungary’s political scene in 2024 after breaking with his political community and quickly forming the center-right Tisza party.

After taking around 30% of the vote in European Parliament elections in June 2024, he has grown Tisza into the most formidable political force Orbán has faced during his 16 years at Hungary’s helm. Most independent polls show Tisza with a significant lead before the April 12 vote, an advantage which has held steady for more than a year.

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          • 🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lol
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            6 months ago

            There are many more of their kind “Reform UK, AfD, Front Nationale” and more to fill their place in the west. I am pessimistic.

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              6 months ago

              it’s all the same hydra, heavily supported by Russia. keep fighting. they aren’t the majority.

              • 🎇sparkles✨@lemy.lol
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                6 months ago

                Imo Elon Musk has given more Money and Influence by buying X to this Project than Russia could ever give.

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                  6 months ago

                  he’s also influenced by Russia

    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      All we need to know, so far. One imagines a powerful, charismatic, and terrifying world leader in a powerful enough country could be a real threat to the “fascist old guard”, and they would much prefer an Orban there to that.