US Vice-President JD Vance is due in Hungary to back veteran Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a key European ally of the Trump administration, in a tough parliamentary election, the BBC reports.
Vance is expected to address an election rally with Orban in a football stadium in Budapest on Tuesday afternoon.
Last month President Donald Trump said Orban had his “complete and total support” in a video message to the Hungarian Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.
The 12 April election is billed as Orban’s toughest challenge in a political career going back almost 40 years.
On Sunday he faces Peter Magyar, a former insider in Orban’s Fidesz party, who broke with him two years ago to found the centre-right Tisza party. Tisza leads Fidesz by between 10% and 20% in most polls. Only the strongly pro-government Nezopont agency puts Fidesz narrowly ahead.
