Hard-right and populist leaders from across the globe have appeared in an online video endorsing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of an election that polls suggest could end his long premiership.
The campaign video, published by Orbán this week, shows 11 national leaders and hard-right figureheads – including France’s Marine Le Pen, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Argentina’s Javier Milei – endorsing the Hungarian leader’s bid for a fifth consecutive term in office. The American actor Rob Schneider also lent his support.
Orbán, who returned to power in 2010 and is Europe’s longest-serving prime minister, has become a lodestar for European populists and the MAGA movement in the United…