Hungary’s hard-line leader faces tough election as war rages in neighboring Ukraine.
The election is expected to be the most contested race since Orbán took power in 2010, after six opposition parties — ranging from socialists to the former far right — unexpectedly put aside their ideological differences to unite behind a joint candidate for prime minister, Peter Márki-Zay.
Speaking to reporters Sunday morning after he cast his ballot in snowy Budapest, Orbán reiterated his closing campaign message: Only he and his Fidesz party could keep Hungary from being dragged into the Russia-Ukraine war. “We ask everyone to vote for those parties who are able to guarantee peace and security,” Orbán said. “What I expect is a great victory, that’s what the country needs.”
Women in traditional Hungarian dresses cast their ballots at a polling station in a school in Veresegyhaz, around 20 miles east of Budapest, on Sunday.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy“We did not ask for something special of Budapest,” Zelenskyy said in a video posted to his Telegram channel. “We did not see the moral leadership, did not see any effort to stop this war. Why so?”
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