Anonymousabout 3 hours ago
Hungary heads to the polls on April 12 with opposition leader Péter Magyar's TISZA party leading Viktor Orbán's Fidesz by roughly nine points in independent polls, though government-aligned pollsters show a tighter race. The election unfolds against documented Russian disinformation operations by Storm-1516 targeting Magyar, a structural media advantage that gives Fidesz 87% of political ad spending, and roughly €20 billion in frozen EU funds that Magyar has pledged to unlock — while constitutional barriers built over Orbán's 16-year tenure could severely constrain any successor government even in victory.