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President’s resignation shines light on gap between government’s behaviour and rhetoric as country prepares for local and European electionsA scandal rocking Hungarian politics is exposing Viktor Orbán’s vulnerabilities and testing his opposition as the country prepares for local and European elections in June.The Hungarian prime minister has been spending a significant amount of time travelling the globe in a quest to build up an...

Hungarian PM met a who’s who of rightwing leaders on his travels in 2023, as critics point to failures at homeEurope’s pariah prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is jetting across the globe in search of friends.Hungary, an EU and Nato member that has been backsliding on democratic norms for more than a decade, has become even more isolated in the western club over the past...