Peter Magyar, the leader of opposition party Tisza, visits Debrecen, Hungary on July 22.
Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
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Viktor Orban’s Grip on Hungary Is Slipping With No Help From Trump
Chinese investment in Debrecen was supposed to be the crowning achievement of Orban’s time in office. Instead, the city is where all his problems seem to be converging.
Dressed in beige shorts and a blue shirt, Viktor Orban’s chief challenger rolled into Debrecen on a scooter and stopped on a patch of grass close to the giant battery plant under construction for China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.
Peter Magyar, the leader of Hungary’s opposition Tisza party, wasn’t in the eastern city to view the €7.3 billion ($8.4 billion) project so much as to make common cause with those who oppose it.