NARRATIVE – The standoff between the Hungarian Prime Minister and his rival Péter Magyar moves this Wednesday to the European Parliament.
Budapest
Viktor Orban still does not pronounce the name of his new rival. But he now publicly recognizes that the cards are being reshuffled in the Hungarian political game. The Péter Magyar phenomenon, named after a 43-year-old businessman who loudly broke with Fidesz at the start of the year, was not just a flash in the pan. He took root in a few months and two recent polls place his liberal-conservative Tisza party as a serious competitor to Fidesz, which has been in power for almost fifteen years: 34% against 39%, according to Idea, and 39% against 43%, according to Median. . Latest sign of his capacity to mobilize: around 10,000 people protested his call on Sunday in front of public television against the « propaganda machine » of power.
From now on, Viktor Orban himself explained, it will no longer be enough to raise the scarecrow of the former socialist prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to win the…
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