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Our correspondent explains why the number is climbing towards heaven.

Thank you. correspondent explains why the number is climbing towards heaven. On a chilly day in late March, I took a train from Budapest down to a small Hungarian city called Haudmejo Vasareli, which is near the border with Serbia.

Matt Steinglass is our Europe editor.

I was there to watch a very important man make a speech.

There were thousands of residents packed into the city's center, which is a beautiful sort of quaint Habsburg-era central square.

And they were down there to hear the same man, Patri Magyar.

Peter Magiard is the leader of a center-right political party in Hungary called Tisa.

There is a general election coming up on April 12th, and Magyar is giving his speech with small variations

for local towns over and over and over again at four or five rallies every day.

Magyar's campaign is very social media savvy, and at the beginning of the rally, before he

showed up, organizers sent a video team up on the stage to prompt the crowd to chant

Arad Atisa, which means the Tisa will flood.

That's a pun on the party's name, which refers to the nearby Tisa River,

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