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iROZHLAS | 'Orbán is heading for electoral defeat and trying to win conservative votes,' says analyst

Hungary is facing elections in a year's time and pre-election polls predict that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party could end up in opposition. "Orbán has the lowest support since 2010 and he realises it. With his actions against the opposition, LGBT and others, he is trying to keep the conservative core of his voters," said Oszkár Roginer-Hofmeister, a Hungarian analyst at the EUROPEUM Institute, in an interview with iROZHLAS.cz.

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30. March 2025

I'm not sure if there is a good word to describe Viktor Orbán's approach to civil society in Hungary, but I guess I would say it is ambiguous. If you look at what Orbán does in day-to-day politics, he is always targeting something or someone - either individuals or organisations. In a broader framework, everything is related to his desire to stay in power.

It is almost traditional for him to attack György Soros, even though Orbán himself has received a grant from Soros in the past. Incidentally, however, the circle of people who have helped him in the past and are now his enemies is larger. In his annual 'state of the nation' speech, he mentions that organisations and people who are financed from abroad should be expelled from Hungary.

You can read the whole interview here.