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Hungary’s Orban under pressure from new party
Orban provided no evidence for these claims either, but his comments came against the background of an economic downturn and series of political scandals which have seen a rise in support for a new rival party.
The Tisza party, led by former-government-insider-turned opposition leader Peter Magyar, has accused Orban of corruption and propaganda and is currently polling neck-and-neck with the prime minister’s Fidesz party.
“Hungarians have sent a message: Viktor Orban’s regime is finished,” said Magyar, a media-savvy 43-year-old, after the publication of the latest polls this week.
Magyar has also seized on remarks by an Orban advisor who claimed last month that Hungary, faced with invasion, would not have defended itself like Ukraine has done, since the crushing of the 1956 uprising taught it to be “cautious.”
The remarks caused outrage in Hungary and Orban called them a “mistake.” The official has apologized but resisted calls to resign.
The 1956 uprising is “a cornerstone of national identity… and has an identity-building power for Hungarians, including pro-government voters,” Zoltan Ranschburg, a senior political analyst at the liberal-leaning Republikon Institute in Budapest, explained to the AFP news agency.
But the added that the aid’s remarks revealed a “contradiction” in the Orban’s messaging, which “simultaneously praises patriotism and national sovereignty while condemning the Ukrainian president for defending his own country.”
mf/lo (AFP, AP, Reuters)
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Publish date : 2024-10-23 18:23:00
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