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"Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar blasted what he described as 'desperate scaremongering and falsehoods' by Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, through an election campaign marked by claims of foreign meddling. "Today is the celebration of a system-changing referendum, one that will be recorded in Hungarian history books," he stated. "All the rumours, lies and fabrications invented by Russian advisers suggesting that anyone is preparing violent actions or building occupations after the vote closes are nothing but nonsense." "We'll all breathe a sigh of relief tonight when we say goodbye to the era of incitement and hatred," he continued, calling on Hungarians to vote if they had not done so already. "We are living through the final hours of Orban’s rule. Let us bid them farewell calmly and with dignity. And tomorrow, let us begin the work of reuniting the nation,” he concluded. Orban's Fidesz faces off with challenger Peter Magyar's Tisza on Sunday, April 12, following a campaign that has been dominated by allegations of election meddling. Orban's government accused the EU and Ukraine of repeated interference in an attempt to install a more pro-Brussels and pro-Kiev administration, following rows over energy and funding. Most notably, Hungary and Slovakia accused Ukraine of halting supplies via the Druzhba oil pipeline from Russia for political reasons - while Kiev claimed it was blocked due to 'Russian strikes' - and Orban subsequently blocked the latest 90-billion-euro loan for Ukraine from the bloc. Budapest also claimed Kiev tried to funnel millions in cash and gold bars to Tisza after shipments were seized from Ukrainian couriers, which Magyar called a 'smear campaign'. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky was even accused of threatening Orban's life, after he suggested he would give the PM's 'address' to his armed forces. Last week, on a trip to Hungary, US Vice President JD Vance called Zelensky's death threat 'completely scandalous' as well as 'preposterous and unacceptable' - and said EU meddling in the election was "one of the worst examples of foreign interference I've ever seen". The European Commission suggested it would raise its comments with the US through 'diplomatic channels'. A recent AtlasIntel poll put the Tisza Party at 52% and Fidesz-KDNP at 39%."
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