Overview
- Rivals now trade claims of vote-buying, illegal spying and foreign meddling, with police raiding two Tisza IT workers and Hungary seizing cash and gold bound for a Ukrainian bank that Kyiv says were lawfully in transit.
- The OSCE’s election mission warns that concentrated media ownership boosts pro-government messages and risks skewing coverage before the April 12 vote.
- Pro-government groups are assembling parallel observer missions, creating the chance of competing accounts of what happened once results come in.
- Multiple polls show Péter Magyar’s Tisza party in front, making a defeat of Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power a credible outcome.
- Local surveys now put Tisza ahead in several former Fidesz strongholds, as shifts in rural districts and strong support from under‑30s reshape the map.