The panel discusses the results and implications of what are considered to be the most important elections in the EU this year: the Hungarian parliamentary elections. Their outcome will shape European policy on Ukraine and Russia as well as many other issues that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been blocking in recent years. Recent polling shows Orbán’s Fidesz trailing more than 10 percentage points behind Péter Magyar’s Tisza in a campaign that focused on corruption and economic discontent as well as foreign policy. Thus, the outcome also sends signals to other European populists who have endorsed Orbán and could show how democratic backsliding might be reversed.
Speakers:
Róbert László, Election Expert, Political Capital Policy Research and Consulting Institute
András Rácz, Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Defense, DGAP
Márta Pardavi, Co-chair, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
Mujtaba Rahman, Managing Director Europe, Eurasia Group
Chair:
Milan Nič, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, DGAP
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