I was expecting a lot when I travelled to Budapest in March to get a sense of the political climate ahead of the parliamentary elections on 12 April 2026: from Orbánists painting the opposition leader Péter Magyar as a warmonger eager to send Hungarian youths to die in Ukraine to Orbán’s foes portraying him as the Hitler of the 2020s. I would have been quietly disappointed if covering Hungary’s famously free but unfair elections had not provided the entertainment of some historically inaccurate political exaggerations.
However, one thing I did not anticipate was the ‘Ken-ification’ of the two leadership candidates surfacing in
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