Hungarian voters will go to the polls for parliamentary elections on Sunday. They will, in all likelihood, re-elect Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party.
That isn’t to say the opposition, united behind Péter Márki-Zay, mayor of Hódmezővásárhely, has no chance. But a combination of a media landscape dominated by those loyal to or aligned with the government, an electoral map that effectively means the opposition would need to win by 3 per cent to carry the day, and some genuine support for the ruling party, particularly in rural areas, all mean that the likeliest outcome is an Orbán victory.
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