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"Did you know? There is war in Syria," a Two-Tailed Dog Party's billboard (l) tells Hungarian. "From Hungary more than one million people want to leave to Europe," says the other one (r). (Photo: Two-Tailed Dog Party)

Hungary’s satire party takes on migrant referendum

It might sound like a joke that a satirical party is the only political group that is running a visible campaign against its country’s controversial anti-immigrant referendum.

But not in Hungary, where the Two-Tailed Dog Party (TTDP) has raised 29 million forints (€ 93,600) from citizens in just two weeks to launch a billboard campaign countering prime minister Viktor Orban’s drive to get people out to vote on 2 October.

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

"Did you know? There is war in Syria," a Two-Tailed Dog Party's billboard (l) tells Hungarian. "From Hungary more than one million people want to leave to Europe," says the other one (r). (Photo: Two-Tailed Dog Party)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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