BUDAPEST( Reuters)-Hungary's ruling Fidesz party pulled two percentage points ahead of the opposition alliance, according to a survey of voter intentions by think thank IDEA Institute published on Thursday ahead of a parliamentary election on April 3. The survey put support for the six united opposition parties at 37% with long-serving nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz on 39%.... The institute's December survey showed the two camps tied on 38%.It said Thursday's poll confirmed th

BUDAPEST( Reuters)-Hungary's united opposition retained a four-point lead ahead of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz in a November survey by the think tank Zavecz Research, which also showed a decline in the ranks of the undecided ahead of a national election. For the first time since taking power in a 2010 landslide, the 58-year-old Orban will face a united front of opposition parties on the ballot, likely to be held in April, that includes the Democratic Coalition, the Socialists, li

Thirty-two years ago, an outspoken young Hungarian activist used a simple slogan to gain fame and launch an unparalleled rise in national politics: “ Russians, go home!... Politicians are talking about it nonstop.” It appears that Mr Orban’s years-long gamble to bolster his power with Kremlin cash and influence is coming to an end.... He has spent the last 12 years telling Hungarians that Russia—the same nation that infamously ordered troops to crush the country’s 1956 democracy uprising—was n