Prime Minister Viktor Orban was already facing an uphill battle to turn around sliding poll numbers, buffeted by an extended economic slump and allegations of rampant corruption in Hungary.

Hungary’s surging opposition movement further widened its lead over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling party in a fresh poll, the second survey in a week suggesting the nationalist leader may be facing a major election loss this month.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s efforts to regain the upper hand in the final weeks of Hungary’s election campaign showed cracks in the face of a rising tide of opposition support and a string of fresh political scandals.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has spent the past 16 years perfecting what he calls an “illiberal laboratory” in the European Union member state, holding it up as an election-proof model for nationalist allies such as US President Donald Trump.

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar said he will oust Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s key allies — including the president and chief justices — if his party wins a supermajority in elections on April 12.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is looking to mobilize support from European Union far-right leaders as his government battles allegations of Russian attempts to tilt the country’s pivotal elections in favor of the nationalist incumbent.

US Vice President JD Vance will pay a visit to Hungary before the country’s pivotal April 12 elections, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a podcast.

Less than a month before Hungarians go to the polls for one of Europe’s most-anticipated elections, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is ditching carefully choreographed events for impassioned rallies in a bid to erase his party’s deficit in polls.

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s supporters packed central Budapest in a show of strength a month before elections that polls show could spell the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar held a series of rallies in towns that host controversial battery plants a month before a key election, honing in on a message that’s damaged Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Ukrainian authorities dismissed an announcement by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government that it would send a team to assess damage to a key pipeline, escalating a standoff between the two countries.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party narrowed its double-digit deficit in a new poll after intensifying his campaign less than five weeks until an election, though the opposition Tisza party held a 14-point lead.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban capped fuel prices after the poll-leading opposition demanded government intervention before pivotal elections in a month.

Hungary posted the second-biggest monthly deficit after Prime Minister Viktor Orban ramped up election spending before the April 12 ballot.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is leveraging the US-Israeli war on Iran in his latest bid to close a wide opposition poll lead with a general election weeks away.

Hungary announced a police probe into the handling of toxic substances at Samsung SDI’s battery factory north of Budapest, after a contamination scandal engulfed Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government weeks before closely fought elections.

Hungary’s central bank cut its key interest rate for the first time in almost a year and a half but pledged to stay cautious as policymakers look to protect the stability of the local currency.

Hungary’s central bank cut its key interest rate for the first time in almost a year and a half but pledged to stay cautious as policymakers look to protect the stability of the local currency.

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar said he was secretly taped having sex with his former partner in 2024, preempting a potential release of a video that he called a “Russia-style” attempt to blackmail him before pivotal elections in April.

Hungary restored the environmental permit of Samsung SDI’s battery plant, just as a report on dangerous toxicity at the facility put Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government on the defensive ahead of April’s elections.