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Orbán and rival Magyar hold rallies as Hungary election campaigns enter final stretch – as it happened

Opposition candidate Péter Magyar holds rally outside Budapest as Orbán visits Székesfehérvár ahead of Sunday election Orbán and Magyar trade accusations in last days of Hungary election campaign Ashifa Kassam and… Grouped from 3 articles across 1 sources.

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The GuardianApr 10, 2026, 6:03 PM

Orbán and rival Magyar hold rallies as Hungary election campaigns enter final stretch – as it happened

Opposition candidate Péter Magyar holds rally outside Budapest as Orbán visits Székesfehérvár ahead of Sunday election Orbán and Magyar trade accusations in last days of Hungary election campaign Ashifa Kassam and Flora Garamvolgyi in Budapest As a child growing up in Budapest, Péter Magyar had a poster of Viktor Orbán – at the time a leading figure in the country’s pro-democracy movement – hanging above his bed. Continue reading...

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The GuardianApr 10, 2026, 4:33 PM

Orbán and Magyar trade accusations in last days of Hungary election campaign

Polls suggest lead for opposition candidate before vote on Sunday as both allege enlistment of foreign interference Europe live – latest updates Hungary elections: what is at stake and who is likely to win? Viktor Orbán and his centre-right rival, Péter Magyar, have traded accusations of enlisting foreign interference in a high-stakes election that polls suggest could mark the end of the nationalist Hungarian prime minister’s 16 years in power. As the two leaders’ campaigns entered their final stages before this weekend’s vote, which is being watched as keenly in Brussels, Moscow and Washington as in Budapest, Orbán said on social media on Friday that his opponent would “stop at nothing to seize power”. Continue reading...

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The GuardianApr 10, 2026, 4:00 AM

Who is Péter Magyar, the man leading the polls as Hungary prepares for election?

Former Viktor Orbán loyalist and his Tisza party have enjoyed meteoric rise as opposition movement grows As a child growing up in Budapest, Péter Magyar had a poster of Viktor Orbán – at the time a leading figure in the country’s pro-democracy movement – hanging above his bed. Orbán was one of several political figures that adorned his bedroom, Magyar told a podcast last year, hinting at his excitement over the changes sweeping the country after the collapse of communism. Now Magyar, 45, is the driving force behind what could be another momentous political change in Hungary: the ousting of Orbán, whose 16 years in power has transformed the country into a “petri dish for illiberalism”. Continue reading...

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