Hungary's Orbán and Magyar hold competing rallies before 2026 election
With elections due in April, the rival rallies were a standoff between Viktor Orbán and Péter Magyar, his main political challenger who looks set to present the long-serving Hungarian leader with the most competitive ballot in his 15 years in power.
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00:00Rival political parties in Hungary have boasted the anniversary of the 1956 revolution in Budapest as an opportunity to demonstrate mass support.
00:10Prime Minister Viktor Orbán brought tens of thousands to the street and said the upcoming elections will be a choice between a war led by Brussels or peace under his leadership.
00:30Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's rival, Peter Magyar, leader of the TISA party equally drew tens of thousands of people to his own march and drew parallels between pro-Russian Orbán and the puppet government installed by the Soviet Union after the revolution.
01:00Magyar people are not able to decide in Brussels, but in Washington and Moskva they are not.
01:08They write the story of Magyar people. Magyar people are in the city of Magyar and in the city of Magyar.
01:15When they turn against the fear, they change their hope, and they start with each other.
01:23Hungary is already in full campaign mode six months before the upcoming elections.
01:28Viktor Orbán and Fidesz on the defensive against a rival coming from his own party who has united the multicolored opposition sympathizers in one center-right party.
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