{"id":526093,"date":"2026-04-12T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526093\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:10:09","slug":"hungarians-decide-whether-to-end-16-years-of-orban-rule-and-elect-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526093\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarians decide whether to end 16 years of Orb\u00e1n rule and elect rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hungary&#8217;s three most reliable pollsters are all pointing to a &#8220;huge lead&#8221; for Magyar&#8217;s Tisza party, says election specialist R\u00f3bert L\u00e1szl\u00f3 at Budapest think tank Political Capital. Most analysts had assumed Fidesz would reduce that lead as the election drew closer, but he says that has not happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Magyar has told voters they need not just an absolute majority of 100 seats in the 199-seat parliament, but a two-thirds super-majority, to wind back many of the constitutional changes that Fidesz made to the independence of the judiciary, ownership of the media, and many other walks of life. Hungary is repeatedly at the bottom of Transparency International&#8217;s Corruption Perceptions Index.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The most likely scenario is that Tisza will have a comfortable, absolute majority, but not a two-thirds majority. But you can&#8217;t exclude a two-thirds majority either,&#8221; says L\u00e1szl\u00f3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In recent days, there have been figures from the police, military and business who have all spoken out against Fidesz, and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 believes this is a sign that the public mood has turned against Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungary&#8217;s three most reliable pollsters are all pointing to a &#8220;huge lead&#8221; for Magyar&#8217;s Tisza party, says election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-526093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}