Orbán’s gambit to revive his election hopes: A battle against the EU (www.politico.eu)
from breakfastmtn@piefed.ca to world@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 04:43
https://piefed.ca/c/world/p/549072/orbans-gambit-to-revive-his-election-hopes-a-battle-against-the-eu

The Hungarian leader wants to portray his main rival, Péter Magyar, as a stooge of his traditional bogeymen: Brussels and Kyiv. But Magyar is proving hard to typecast.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has decided a showdown with Brussels is exactly what his flagging election campaign needs.

Orbán is on the back foot at home — trailing his rival Péter Magyar by some 8 percentage points in polls ahead of the April 12 election. So he’s gone on the attack against two of his favorite bogeymen abroad: Brussels and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In doing so he’s trying to set a trap for Magyar, the 44-year-old member of the European Parliament who is on track to beat him.

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