{"id":7405,"date":"2022-01-11T20:49:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centraleuropeantimes.com\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2022-01-11T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:49:54","slug":"hungary-to-go-to-the-polls-early-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centraleuropeantimes.com\/2022\/01\/hungary-to-go-to-the-polls-early-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary to go to the polls early April"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Hungary will hold an election on April 3 when nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will compete with an opposition alliance fronted by a conservative outsider, Hungarian President Janos Ader announced Tuesday afternoon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While some of Orban\u2019s policies since he won an election landslide in 2010 have been popular, most notably his pro-family and anti-immigration positions, critics say his Fidesz party has meanwhile weakened Hungarian democracy, press freedom and rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ideologies of the six parties who in late 2020 formed an anti-Orban alliance range from centre left to centre-right. The opposition\u2019s prime ministerial candidate &#8211; elected in an opposition primary in the autumn &#8211; is Hodmezovasarhely mayor Peter Marki-Zay, a Catholic, conservative father of seven. On the announcement of the date Marki-Zay vowed to oust Orban&#8217;s &#8220;corrupt and greedy regime&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks Orban\u2019s Fidesz party has announced a EUR 2.2 billion income-tax scheme rebate for families, pension and minimum wage hikes, and tax breaks for youngsters, swelling Hungary\u2019s budget deficit in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span> Hungary will hold an election on April 3 when nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban will compete with an opposition alliance fronted by a conservative outsider, Hungarian President Janos Ader announced Tuesday afternoon.&nbsp; While some of Orban\u2019s policies since he won an election landslide in 2010 have been popular, most notably his pro-family and anti-immigration positions,  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,66],"tags":[417,274,338],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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