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Soros, who was born in Hungary, is fighting back.
Approximately 137,000 non-Hungarians living in Hungary, along with 35,000 EU citizens, refugees or long-term residents, are eligible to vote in the June 9 local authority elections in Hungary without having to register.
Foreign nationals can also feature on the party lists for the election of Hungarian members of the European Parliament (EP) if they are citizens of other EU member states and are resident in Hungary.
An independent political observer has reservations about the latest opinion poll which suggests that Fidesz lost 10 percentage points from its voting base, while a pro-government pundit calls these data manipulated.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in a radio interview on Friday, said freedom of speech was “in bad shape” in Western Europe. “In liberal societies, the institutions shaping public opinion – the media, universities, research institutions, foundations and politicians – have become homogenous, and say more or less the same thing.”
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