The regime is doing all it can to damage the credibility of P\u00e9ter Magyar \u2013 but the young challenger\u2019s popularity keeps rising<\/p>\n
Hungarian politics can sometimes seem like a soap opera that is stuck with the same characters and has run on too long. You have the occasional scandals \u2013 such as a prominent government MEP escaping a Brussels orgy<\/a> down a drainpipe \u2013 but other than that, nothing ever seems to change. Here, you can start primary education, graduate high school and start university, and Viktor Orb\u00e1n will still be prime minister.<\/p>\n But that script is about to get a major rewrite, as Orb\u00e1n\u2019s 14-year reign is now being challenged by P\u00e9ter Magyar<\/a>, the ex-husband of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s former justice minister Judit Varga. Magyar\u2019s recently formed Tisza party currently has a double-digit lead<\/a> over Fidesz in the latest opinion polls. General elections are due in the spring of 2026, and Fidesz is panicking.<\/p>\n Vikt\u00f3ria Serd\u00fclt is a journalist and editor of Hungarian newspaper HVG<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The regime is doing all it can to damage the credibility of P\u00e9ter Magyar \u2013 but the young challenger\u2019s popularity keeps rising Hungarian politics can sometimes seem like a soap opera that is stuck with the same characters and has run on too long. You have the occasional scandals \u2013 such as a prominent government … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}