(9 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
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Budapest, Hungary – 9 June 2024
1. Péter Magyar, opposition leader, in polling station
2. Magyar registering to vote
3. Magyar entering booth to vote
4. Cutaway camera
5. Magyar voting
6. Magyar shaking hands with members of the election commission and leaving
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Péter Magyar, Hungarian opposition leader:
”I don’t want to send any message to Viktor Orbán, the voters will send a strong message to Viktor Orban. They are fed up with the corruption, with the lies and with the propaganda. You know, Hungary became the second poorest and most corrupt country in the European Union after receiving around 40 thousand billion Hungarian Forints. We were a leading candidate in 2004 and now we are the second poorest member state in the European Union. The people would like to have a change, maybe a new regime change, but we will se at the end of the day. Thank you.”
8. Magyar leaving
STORYLINE:
Voters began casting their ballots in Hungary early on Sunday in an election that many see as a referendum on the popularity of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose illiberal policies have pushed him to the margins of the European Union (EU).
Péter Magyar, a rising political newcomer hoping to deal a blow to Orbán, cast his vote in the capital, Budapest.
Magyar, a 43-year-old lawyer who in a matter of months has built up Hungary’s strongest opposition party, said he hoped voters would send "a strong message to Viktor Orbán."
"They are fed up with the corruption, with the lies and with the propaganda," he said after voting.
Magyar hopes to use a good showing in Sunday’s EU elections to propel himself and his movement toward defeating the nationalist Orbán in the next national ballot scheduled for 2026.
Once an insider within Orbán’s Fidesz party, Magyar has gained quick prominence through publicly accusing the prime minister and his allies of corruption and anti-democratic tendencies.
He has drawn thousands of curious spectators on a tour of nearly 200 Hungarian cities, towns and villages in the last two months.
Recent polls show that Fidesz is likely to take a relative majority of votes in Sunday’s election, but that Magyar’s party, Respect and Freedom (TISZA), could gain up to 30% and cause a loss of seats for Fidesz among Hungary’s 21-member delegation in the EU legislature.
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