Facing a real chance of defeat in the April parliamentary elections, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban can’t stop talking about President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine.

Just in the past few weeks, the Hungarian strongman called the war-torn country an “enemy” and accused its leadership of blackmail, deception, and election interference. Orban even deployed troops to defend Hungary’s energy infrastructure against a claimed Ukrainian threat.

Hungary’s leader is “desperately losing” his pre-election fight, Pavel Havlicek, a research fellow at the Association for International Affairs in Prague, told the Kyiv Independent.

To avert defeat, he is “picking external fights,” seeking to mobilize Hungarian voters against Ukraine while also pointing the finger at the domestic political opposition, the expert says.

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  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election

    Significant differences have been noted by the Hungarian media in the numbers produced by different polling companies.[23][24][25] In January 2026, political scientist Gábor Török observed that the large differences between government- and non-government-affiliated pollsters was a new phenomenon in Hungarian politics. He suggested that the differences as they stood a few months out from the election were “unexplainable on research grounds”.[26]

    Government-aligned:

    Independent/opposition-aligned:

    Interesting.

    • testaccount372920@piefed.zipEnglish
      13·
      16 hours ago

      Both show Orban starting to rise again or at least not decline anymore :( Come on Hungarian people, you have a chance to get rid of the wannabe dictator!