Peter Magyar - ex-insider challenging Viktor Orban for power in Hungary
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“Peter Magyar has been telling Hungarians, in a breathless campaign across the country in the run-up to 12 April elections that opinion polls suggest he can win.”
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“This 45-year-old former Fidesz party insider represents the biggest threat to Viktor Orban's rule in Hungary since he won the first of four consecutive victories in 2010.”
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“Magyar's slogan dates back to a revolutionary poet's 19th Century rallying cry to rise up for the homeland.”
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“He is on course to visit all of Hungary's 106 constituencies, and he has given four, five, even six speeches a day.”
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“Last year he walked 300km (185 miles) from Budapest to the Romanian border in a campaign to 'reunite' the nation.”
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“Magyar promises to tackle corruption, improve the economy and he has sought to woo Hungary's disadvantaged Roma community.”
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“He has also promised to unlock billions of euros in EU funds, frozen largely because of concerns over Hungary's rule of law.”
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“His self-confidence stems from a deep understanding of the rival he faces.”
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“Until February 2024, Magyar was very much part of the Fidesz family.”
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“He joined the party at university and married one of its rising stars in Judit Varga, with whom he had three children.”
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“The current opposition was totally inept, he complained, so change would have to come from within.”
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“His YouTube appearance went viral.”
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“Peter Magyar's high-profile party marriage had fallen apart in 2023 but he was still an important figure in Fidesz.”
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“Magyar went to an elite Catholic boys' high school near the centre of Budapest before studying law at a Catholic university in Budapest while Orban was serving his first term as prime minister from 1998-2002.”
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“Magyar joined the party after Orban's election defeat, and the woman he married, Judit Varga, was destined for Fidesz success, becoming justice minister in 2019.”
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“By autumn 2024, Magyar's new party was ahead of Fidesz in the polls and he tore into Orban's close ties with Russia as they led rival marches marking Hungary's 1956 uprising against the Soviet Union.”
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“Magyar is no liberal. He has openly derided the liberal opposition that tried to take Orban on in the past, only to see the Fidesz leader storm to a two-thirds majority it needed to mould the constitution.”
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“One key to his success has been his demolition of the fragmented, old opposition parties. He sees former Socialist leader Ferenc Gyurcsany as no better than Orban.”
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“Earlier this year he alleged he had been the target of an attempted 'Russian-style' smear campaign involving a sex tape.”
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