Hungary
Jonny Dymond chairs a debate with leading Hungarian politicians and academics
Jonny Dymond chairs a debate with leading Hungarian politicians and academics who take questions from the public across Hungary. With elections due in April, can the right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been in power for 15 years, hold off his main political challenger?
The Panel:
Andras Laszlo, MEP, Fidesz Party
Timea Szabo, MP, PM Green Party
Boris Kalnoky, journalist and analyst. Head of the Media School at Mathias Corvinus Collegium
Zsuzsanna Szelenyi, author and research fellow at Central European University Democracy Institute
Producer: Helen Towner
Sound engineers: Syd Dundon, Kate Barker and Joe Lawrence
(Photo: Supporters of Peter Magyar, leader of the opposition TISZA party, waving Hungarian flags.
Credit: Janos Kummer/Getty Images)
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