Watch: Who Will Win General Election in Hungary? - BBC Expert Debate

  • 27 Jan 2026 7:15 AM
Watch: Who Will Win General Election in Hungary? - BBC Expert Debate
With elections due in April this year, can the right-wing populist PM Viktor Orbán, who has been in power for 15 years, hold off his main political challenger, Péter Magyar, as polls show the race tightening?

Jonny Dymond chairs a debate with leading Hungarian politicians and academic experts who take questions from the public in Hungary.

The Panel: Andras Laszlo, MEP, Fidesz Party Timea Szabo, MP, PM Green Party Boris Kalnoky, journalist and analyst. Head of the Media School at Mathias Corvinus Collegium Zsuzsanna Szelenyi, author and research fellow at Central European University Democracy Institute.

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