Gyorgy Kerenyi is a senior correspondent in the Budapest bureau of RFE/RL's Hungarian Service.
New opposition hope Peter Magyar is delighting crowds in Hungary. Many, though, are not convinced.
The Two-Tailed Dog Party started life as a joke: pledging to build a mountain and promising voters free beer and eternal life. But now, as the most popular opposition party among the under-40s, the party is finding out that politics is not all fun and games.
In an exclusive interview, Peter Marki-Zay, the opposition's candidate for prime minister in April 3 elections, says Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a "traitor" for putting ethnic Hungarians in western Ukraine at risk in the war with Russia and says "we have to stop Putin, not Brussels."
Interviews with some of Taplanszentkereszt's 2,000 residents suggest their support for the ruling party shouldn't necessarily be taken for granted.
