Hungary’s Orban faces a new and serious contender in the EU elections

(8 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Debrecen, Hungary - 5 May 2024
1. Various of Péter Magyar being greeted by supporters ahead of demonstration
2. Crowd at demonstration
3. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Péter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orbán:
"The TISZA party is getting bigger week by week, day by day.”
4. Clapping supporters in crowd
5. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Péter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orbán:
"There are more and more of us, anywhere we go.”
6. Wide of crowd at demonstration

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vác, Hungary - 18 May 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Péter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orbán:
"People are really fed up. And now they want someone to tell the truth on the one hand, and on the other, to offer some alternative. So far there has been an opposition and there has been a ruling party. Now people are finding out that it was one branch.”
++Night shots++
8. Magyar standing on a stage and clapping UPSOUND (Hungarian): "The Tisza is flooding, the Tisza is flooding”
9. Woman chanting UPSOUND (Hungarian): "The Tisza is flooding, the Tisza is flooding." (Tisza, the name of Magyar's party, is also the name of Hungary’s second-largest river which is known to flood frequently)
10. Magyar surrounded by a crowd of supporters
11. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Péter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orbán:
"The ghost got out of the bottle. And now there are many thousands of us. In the larger cities, 10 or 20 thousand people gather together. This shows that the people are not hiding their views. And I think this usually shows the end of dictatorships. I am not saying that Hungary is an absolute dictatorship, but a kind of hybrid democracy. People are no longer afraid, and that pretty much evokes the end days of the regime.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Budapest, Hungary - 30 May 2024
12. Demonstrators clapping
13. Magyar walking onto a stage
14. Crowd cheering
15. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Péter Magyar, head of the TISZA party and a challenger of Orbán:
"We have become Europe's second poorest and the EU’s most corrupt country. How could this happen?”
16. Crowd cheering
UPSOUND (Hungarian) "Ria, ria, Hungaria!”
17. Crowd chanting
UPSOUND (Hungarian) "Go Peti, go!”
STORYLINE:
Hungary’s long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is facing a serious challenger in the upcoming EU elections, newcomer Péter Magyar.

Magyar — a 43-year-old lawyer and former insider of the ruling Fidesz party — has vowed to build a more constructive relationship with the EU and to crack down on corruption.

He has sought to capitalize on a political crisis in the country in order to build a party with the potential of shaking Orbán's 14-year grip on power.

A recent series of scandals and a deep economic slump in Hungary have cost Orbán potentially hundreds of thousands of supporters.

Magyar has seized the opportunity to create a party with rapidly growing support which draws on voters disenchanted with both Orbán and opposition parties.

"People are really fed up. And now they want someone to tell the truth on the one hand, and on the other, to offer some alternative. So far there has been an opposition and there has been a ruling party. Now people are finding out that it was one branch”, Magyar explained in an interview with The Associated Press.

"The genie got out of the bottle. And now there are many thousands of us. In the larger cities, 10 or 20 thousand people gather together. This shows that the people are not hiding their views. And I think this usually shows the end of dictatorships.






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