Special guest: Péter Márki-Zay promises to defeat pro-Russian forces in CEE

Europe’s right-wing populist leaders convened in Warsaw ahead of Biden’s Summit for Democracy, vowing to pursue closer cooperation in the European Parliament but ultimately falling short of establishing a new, coherent political party. Russia’s military activities on border with Ukraine heightens threat perception in the West as Biden and Putin schedule a videoconference for Tuesday.  Péter Márki-Zay, prime ministerial candidate nominated by Hungary’s united opposition for the April 2022 elections stops by to talk with Visegrad Insight as part of a working trip to Warsaw, outlining what a victory of the opposition would entail compared to the continuation of Viktor Orbán’s ‘one-party state’ system. As a summary of that visit Wojciech Przybylski chats with Zoltan Kesz, Central European Affairs podcaster and political adviser to Márki-Zay, on the future of Hungarian politics and strategic direction of the campaign. More about the meeting with Péter Márki-Zay here.