Hungarians will go to the polls this Sunday in one of the most closely watched elections this year.

Longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an ally of both President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin,

is facing the most serious challenge to his 16 years in office.

As Lisa Desjardin tells us, the White House has a lot rioting on Hungary's vote.

In Hungary this week, a nation on a precipice.

Between a leader linked to the east...

Democracy is dying in Europe because Brussels is directly interfering in national elections.

They openly demand that Hungary should have a pro-Brussels and a pro-Ukrainian government.

Well, it won't happen, my friends.

And a challenger promising a turn to the West.

The Hungarians still see that Hungary's peace and development are guaranteed by the membership of the European Union and NATO.

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Orban has led Hungary for 16 years, the longest of any serving European Union leader.

Long-touting nationalist conservative policies promoting, in his own words, an illiberal state based on national values, from fiscal

conservatism, pursuing state control in the economy, to crackdowns on immigration, and

passing anti-LGBQ laws, banning pride events, and same-sex marriage.

Orban has been accused by the European Union and human rights organizations of dismantling democratic

institutions, from cracking down on free press and restricting content to co-opting ownership

of independent media. Pro-Orban oligarchs now own 500 media outlets. Approximately 80% of the

nation's media is controlled by Orban's

Fidesz party.

Hungary's new constitution has angered opposition.

The hard right party also successfully passed a new constitution in 2011 that hands control

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