The elections for the European Parliament are scheduled for the 9th of June in Hungary (the same date as in Portugal) and these days, in Budapest, we can already see large political posters with the image of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, sitting in an armchair together with opponents of Orbán, characterized as waiters, in which we can read "humble servants of Brussels" in matters such as "migration, gender and war".

Authored by the national-conservative party Fidesz, which has been in power in Hungary for 14 years, the posters gather Orbán's 'rivals' such as the popular leader of the new party Respect and Freedom (TISZA), Péter Magyar, the former socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, the socialist MEP Klára Dobrev and the Mayor of Budapest elected by the Greens, Gergely Karácsony.

But despite Péter Magyar being a recent name on these posters, none of the topics addressed cause surprise to association leaders, including the coordinator of the Háttér project (representing LGBT people in Hungary), who almost resignedly admits to Lusa in Budapest that "the government has used these posters as a communication trick to create unrealistic fears and say that they will save the population".

For Vivien Vadasi, legal consultant of the Hungarian Association for Migrants Menedék, these large posters, which contrast with the small posters of the opposition parties, only aim to create "white noise" among the population, which nowadays "doesn't even care".

In the Hungarian conservative wing, this type of message is not seen as anti-democratic, but rather "a sovereignist approach" to the "demands of the European Union", says the executive director of the Mathias Corvinus College in Brussels, Frank Füredi.

A former communist and now a democratic populist, Frank Füredi argues that "people did not ask for mass migration or the integration of gender identity into politics".

The Secretary of State for International Communication, Zoltán Kovács, also says in an interview with Lusa that only "rules that must be followed" are at stake, for regular migration, sex change only after the age of 18 and a focus on peace instead of war.

This is not the view of researcher Zsuzsanna Szelenyi, who began her career as a member of the Fidesz party and left when Orbán took over the leadership. Speaking to Lusa in Budapest, the analyst describes this as "very unpleasant government propaganda" in which "millions of taxpayers' euros" are spent to ensure "dominance" of political posters, pay for pro-government influencers and limit the opposition's access to the media space.

Even though Fidesz spreads the idea that Hungary is "a pro-family country", namely in other posters placed at Budapest airport, the truth is that, for researcher Bulcsú Hunyadi of the Political Capital Institute, the "government's image of protecting children has been affected" by the recent scandal related to a pardon in a pedophilia case.

"The government uses opposition politicians and non-governmental organizations to feed the anti-gender and anti-LGBT agenda, but then it fails itself", compares Bulcsú Hunyadi, speaking in a context of "icing on the cake" for the emergence of "a superstar", Péter Magyar.

Bulcsú Hunyadi describes his rise as an "exception in recent Hungarian political history, in which someone manages to have so much support and mobilize so many people in a short space of time", especially someone who "was part of the inner circles of the regime".

At a time when TISZA is expected to be the second most voted force, behind Fidesz, Péter Magyar says in an interview with Lusa that "people are fed up with this political elite".

"That's why my party and I are so popular and the popularity is growing more and more, because people are fed up with these guys and would like to have a completely new political system in Hungary", says Péter Magyar.

Opposition parties heard by Lusa recognize that this popularity is causing the "struggle for survival" of the other parties, according to Gábor Harangozó, of the socialist MSZP, to Lusa.

The MEP and president of the center-right party Jobbik, Márton Gyöngyösi, corroborates that "all opposition parties are in difficulty".

Also Márton Tompos, vice-president of the liberal Momentum, admits that Péter Magyar is "taking half of [his] voters" for being "insanely popular", while János Árgyelán, of the far-right party Our Homeland, estimates a reduction of 2% to 3% of his voters for this "new messiah".

For the Green LMP, Örs Tetlák speaks of a "symptom of the frustration and disillusionment of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian voters", but says that Péter Magyar "does and says nothing new" and is "an opportunist".

If Ágnes Vadai, of the socialist DK, downplays it and speaks of a "temporary phenomenon", Marietta Le of the satirical Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party says that her party is more dedicated to citizenship and not to popular action.

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