Rob Schmitz

connections to not only his corruption side of Hungary, and that is almost like a familial network of oligarchs that he's helped over his many years as prime minister, but also his government's relationship with Russia.

We've seen in recent weeks leading up to this election that

leaked audio of conversations between Orban's foreign minister and his counterpart in Russia, Sergei Lavrov, where Orban's foreign minister was promising to help Lavrov.

He was basically promising to give him internal documents from the EU so that they could be prepared when they go into negotiations, both with the US and the EU over the war in Ukraine.

I mean, his base is very supportive of him.

And I think it's, you know, it's his stance on both his anti-Europe stance, I would say, anti-liberal politics stance, as well as his stance on immigration.

He's a staunch anti-immigration platform, and he's always had that.

And in many ways, he's become a leader of the far right throughout Europe in his years as prime minister of Hungary.

Yeah, the economy in Hungary has slipped over the past four or five years in his last term in office.

A lot of that actually has to do with the fact that the European Union has cut billions of dollars worth of funding that happened in 2022.

And that is because of all of the

the assault he's basically had on the country's democratic institutions.

So the economy is not doing well.

And also there has risen a political figure named Peter Magyar.

And he is a younger, also a conservative politician from Orban's very Fidesz party.

He was originally a Fidesz politician and now runs his own party called TISA.

And he is ahead in the polls.

And this is a big threat to Orban's longtime rule.

Yeah, it's a big question, right?

I mean, he's behind in the polls, but this is a man who has always defied the odds.