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Will Hungarians vote to oust Europe's most illiberal leader?

"A Hungarian Putin - or Europe? Vote on April 3rd" reads a huge election poster overlooking a highway outside Budapest. The poster shows the Russian president in conversation with his EU ally Victor Orban. © RFI/Jan van der Made

Sunday's elections in Hungary will decide whether Victor Orban – Vladimir Putin's only EU ally – stays in power, or if opposition candidate Peter Marki-Zay, who managed to get a colourful coalition of six parties together, can break the stranglehold of the incumbent's Fidesz party.

"Now, people are allowed to take a photo of their ballot paper [to show] where they've put their vote," Janos Gulyas, head of a communications company in Budapest, told RFI. Gulyas will be a voting official during Sunday's elections in Kisberzseny, a tiny village of just 76 inhabitants, a two-hour drive from Budapest.

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