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.
Marco Rubio supports Orban. Trump supports Orban. That is all you need to know.
the Name
Peter Magyar ?
isn’t that like
Hans Deutsch? Johnny English?
I love it when they put “Peter the hungarian” in memes, it makes it sound like hes some old nomadic clan leader.
Hungarian here. Yes.
Good luck on surviving until election day!
Well theyve already leaked the legal name, age and address of his top 100000 or so supporters and also recorded him having sex woth his ex so they really are going down the russian path.
I think if Orban is reelected that Hungary will need to leave EU.
orban did say the EU is the enemy and not russia.
I think, over time, the other countries will gradually move closer to Orban.
No? Why should they?
Should? Not talking about should here. Instead of pushing off against extreme right, the EU is inviting it in even more.
On February 2 and 3 the EU parliament hosted the VII Transatlantic Summit, a conference organized by the Political Network for Values together with the far-right Patriots for Europe and ECR groups. Under the guise of ‘free speech,’ speakers openly defended Uganda’s anti-homosexuality law (which prescribes the death penalty), mocked transgender people, and railed against conversion therapy bans — all from inside the European Parliament itself. The event featured US groups like the Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom alongside far-right MEPs. Critically, an EPP member — Slovenian MEP Branko Grims — also participated, meaning the centre-right party that claims to uphold the cordon sanitaire was lending its legitimacy to the proceedings. The European Parliament later distanced itself, but the damage was done: homophobia got a free platform in the heart of European democracy.
A summary of a Dutch article. Seems our European newspapers feel ill-at-ease reporting on this. The closest English one would be this: https://globalextremism.org/post/weaponizing-free-speech-against-lgbtq-rights-at-the-european-parliament/
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