The Latest Breaking News from Péter Magyar

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Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar has called on Russia to stop interfering in Hungary's April parliamentary elections, following a report exposing an alleged Kremlin team operating from Budapest's Russian embassy to keep Viktor Orbán in power. Russia denied those allegations.

EU’s longest-serving leader hopes to retain power by telling voters the main threat to country comes from Kyiv

The Hungarian foreign minister accused Ukraine of lying and reprimanded Kaja Kallas in a tense meeting in which Budapest used its veto powers twice to the fury of member states supportive of Ukraine.

Candidates and their supporting organisations have two weeks to collect the necessary signatures of support.

The central European country of 9.5 million faces a crucial vote in less than two months, with polls showing wildly different outcomes depending on who conducts the survey.

Rubio says relationship with Orbán is ‘vital for US national interests’ ahead of Hungarian elections in April

Also in this newsletter: Finnish minister warns Russia's reinforcing nuclear and Arctic assets near border; and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to Hungary on the second stop of his Central Euroepan tour

Magyar has promised greater protection of personal privacy in his latest campaign speech after accusing Orbán's government of allegedly blackmailing him with a secretly recorded sex tape with his former partner in a Budapest apartment in 2024.