Abstract (may include machine translation)
The 2024 EP elections in Hungary resulted in a minor change in the country’s political landscape: a convincing victory for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s governing Fidesz, perhaps the EU’s most notorious populist party, following a campaign dominated by disinformation about ‘Brussels’ and the war in Ukraine as well as very little discussion of policy issues within the EU’s competences. However, Fidesz was considerably less successful than in any prior European election, largely because of the meteoric rise of a new competitor. Founded just two months before polling day, Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party (EPP) took 30% of the vote, the largest share captured by a single political party other than Fidesz since 2010.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Palgrave Handbook on the 2024 European Parliament Elections |
| Editors | Juliet Lodge, Julie Smith, Stergios Fotopoulos |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan Cham |
| Pages | 301-314 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031873973 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783031873966, 9783031873997 |
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| State | Published - Aug 2025 |