politics
February 28, 2026
EU manipulating polls in bid to oust Orban
The AfD’s Alice Weidel claims the EU is skewing polling data to oust Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary’s upcoming election
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- Alice Weidel, co-chair of Germany's AfD party, accuses the EU of attempting to engineer regime change against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
- Weidel claims the EU is using tactics such as poll manipulation and energy blackmail, specifically mentioning the blockade of oil supplies from Ukraine.
- She points to Peter Magyar, a Hungarian opposition leader, as a 'puppet' of the EU in this alleged bid to remove Orban.
- The article notes past inaccuracies in Hungarian opposition pollsters' predictions, citing examples from 2022.
- Hungary and the EU are in a standoff over Hungary's opposition to EU policies on Ukraine and Russia, including blocking aid and sanctions.
- Orban opposes Ukraine's EU membership and accuses Brussels of disregarding the will of the Hungarian people and trying to remove his government.
- Orban frames the upcoming election as a choice between 'war or peace'.
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