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202. How Labour should fight the election, taking on the British press, and Orbán's future far-right axis

The Rest Is Politics

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Viktor Orban's association with George Soros and political tactics

Viktor Orban, the leader of Fidesz and prime minister of Hungary, had initially taken Hungary into NATO and had received a scholarship funded by George Soros. However, despite this, he has propagated a conspiracy theory about Soros and portrayed him negatively in election campaigns, even though Soros had previously funded him. Currently, he is using Ursula von der Leyen as the figure to be portrayed negatively on billboards in Hungary, employing similar tactics as he had used with George Soros.

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