Nearly a dozen politicians have taken to the debate stage in Hungary’s capital to make their pitch to Hungarian voters ahead of European Parliament elections.
People wave Hungarian national flags next to the Danube river, in Budapest, Thursday May 30, 2024, where politicians took to the debate stage ahead of the Europe an Parliament elections. The debate, where the leaders of 11 party lists running in the June 9 elections, is the first to be broadcast by Hungary ’s public media since 2006, while protesters outside demonstrated against the public broadcaster that is hosting the event.
The path to holding the first debate on public television in 18 years was fraught with controversy. The public broadcaster is widely believed by Orbán’s opponents to be subservient to his governing Fidesz party, and some participants disagreed with the decision to allow all 11 party list leaders to appear on stage, as well as with the narrow topics the broadcaster allowed to be discussed.
Before the event, Magyar told several thousand supporters outside the debate venue in Budapest that the public broadcaster “has lied morning, noon and night for 14 years.” The public broadcaster earlier announced that the topics to be discussed during the debate would be limited to EU defense and security, migration and asylum, agriculture and/or democracy and the rule of law — something Magyar and other candidates disputed.
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