Watch: Why Orbán's Grip on Hungary is Slipping
- 7 Apr 2026 10:17 AM
Source:
Bloomberg.com
Source:
Bloomberg.com
Hungary heads to the polls this Sunday, 12 April, in what is widely seen as one of the most consequential elections in the country’s post-communist history.
A new documentary presents through almost 60 interviews the Hungarian system of vote buying in which Fidesz wins an estimated 500,000 votes, primarily in the extremely poor villages of northern and eastern Hungary.
Roma voters may decide whether Prime Minister Viktor Orbán or MEP Péter Magyar prevails in this week’s Hungarian parliamentary election, according to a recently published New York Times article.
Former Ukrainian-born Hungarian gang member László Kovács has accused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of accepting large sums of cash from Ukrainian-born Russian underworld figure Semion Mogilevich to finance his 1998 election campaign.
LATEST NEWS IN getting around