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World Questions

World Questions

Hungary

17 January 2026

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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)