From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the story.
I'm Luke Jones.
I think it's the most important election of anywhere that's going to happen this year.
Ahead of Hungary's election this weekend, Viktor Sebastian has been writing for the Sunday Times about Viktor Orban,
the prime minister and global pin-up for the populist right.
Viktor knew him decades ago.
His story is full of ironies.
I asked him once quite late at night in a bar, OK, all of this communism is going to go.
What are your hopes for Hungary later on?
And when that happened, he said, oh, I want it to be a boring country, just like Austria or Sweden.
He always used to say that what he admired in Western Europe was the free press.
How times change.
Having been in power almost 16 years in this second stint, Orban has been accused by some of being an authoritarian.
There are no separation of powers at all.
He's taken over the legal system, he's taken over the National Bank, he's taken over the media.
I think he's a great opportunist.
He'll move with the wind.
And the wind is illiberal democracy, as he called it.
How did this happen?
Who is the challenger ahead of Orban in the polls?