Hungarian government targets former Fidesz ally in elections campaign

Following his divorce with Fidesz' former justice minister, Péter Magyar emerged as a key opposition figure of Viktor Orban's government.

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00:00 The Hungarian government put up anti-EU billboards ahead of the elections, targeting opposition

00:06 figures, portraying them as servants to Ursula von der Leyen.

00:10 And the firing line was Péter Magyar, who not long ago belonged to the Fidesz elite.

00:16 Today he's a challenger to Viktor Orbán's party.

00:19 The leader of the Kossuth party positions himself as a centrist and hopes to give hope

00:25 for those opposing Viktor Orbán's party.

00:28 "My husband and I have been thinking about leaving for a long time, because we don't

00:35 see the future, we don't see what kind of education our children will have, we see the

00:42 health care system as hopeless."

00:44 Péter Magyar told Euronews that he finds it pathetic and sad that while public hospitals

00:48 are in a scandalous state, the Orbán's government has spent 3.6 billion euros of public money

00:54 on propaganda.

00:55 "I call myself a good person on these billboards, that I would be left-wing, or Ursula von der

01:02 Leyen would be the queen.

01:04 I won't be the queen, the Tisza party is a strong, member-state-driven, strong EU party,

01:10 I don't believe in it.

01:11 At the same time, we will immediately enter the European judiciary.

01:13 Our representatives will sit in the European People's Party, where the Fidesz members

01:18 were expelled from, and we are trying to build a constructive, but critical relationship

01:21 with Brussels."

01:23 Magyar emerged in the public eye with a social media post in February, criticizing the government

01:27 shortly after Hungary's president resigned in a scandal.

01:30 "The 'good-hearted' scoundrel, the Novak, Katalin and Varga-Judit's dismissal, has

01:34 been posting on Facebook for two and a half months.

01:37 According to Péter Magyar's own confession, he was not prepared for the political arena

01:41 in the beginning, and since then he has been preparing for the EP elections in the Tisza

01:44 party's colours.

01:45 This is the second week he has been visiting the Hungarian region, and according to his

01:48 plans, he will visit all the towns and villages by June 8th.

01:52 Kónyarita, Euronews, Villány.

01:54 (whooshing)