Before 2023, Poland experienced events very similar to those we are seeing in Hungary in the run-up to the 2026 elections. At that time, a huge international and Polish left-wing globalist coalition helped Donald Tusk to oust the conservative, right-wing, sovereignist government led by Law and Justice from power. Tusk was supported by exactly the same people who are now behind Péter Magyar, so once he seized power, he began to fulfill his promises not to the Polish people, but to the globalist elite in Brussels. Péter Magyar sees this government as a model, and since the same people exert influence over him, if he wins, he will only be able to follow the same path set out by Manfred Weber and his colleagues, just like the Polish cabinet, which, as this year's presidential election shows, has caused serious disappointment among the Polish people. An excellent example of this is the draft "Tisza tax," which would introduce a brutal increase in the tax burden by the Tisza Party. 

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, took part in the campaign against PiS, publicly bidding farewell to Donald Tusk in the summer of 2022 with these words: "Good luck, Donald, next time we meet, it will be as prime minister." Manfred Weber also took part, standing by Tusk just as openly as he did Péter Magyar a year later. Volodymyr Zelensky also took part in this campaign, despite the fact that Mateusz Morawiecki's government had provided his country with enormous financial, political, and military assistance for a year and a half. Zelensky "repaid" all this by harshly criticizing the right-wing prime minister in the final stages of the campaign. The similarity is therefore striking, as the Ukrainian president also interfered in Hungarian domestic politics, and it is well known that a lot of available information indicates that the Ukrainian secret service also supported the Tisza Party. Of course, the international left-wing globalist financial players linked to George Soros, who tried to influence the outcome of the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary elections from outside, and the media outlets linked to the Open Society network, and other organizations linked to the Open Society Network are now clearly supporting Péter Magyar. 

Although Jarosław Kaczyński's party won the 2023 election with confidence, it failed to form a majority, and Tusk was able to cobble together a multi-party rainbow coalition. This heterogeneous alliance was held together by one thing: the rejection of PiS, which took the form of criticism for some and outright hatred for others. Lacking a real program or vision, Tusk deliberately fueled this hatred in his campaign. A year and a half after the government was formed, the Hungarian Polish Freedom Institute's latest report, we show how this alliance built on hatred came to power, what external and internal forces helped it, what became of the promises made to voters, and what price Poles are now paying for the puppet government imposed on them by Brussels. 

A dysfunctional state, a crumbling healthcare system, a failing education system, late trains, in short: everything is bad – Péter Magyar's European People's Party colleague, Donald Tusk, repeated these familiar slogans to Hungarian readers during his year-and-a-half-long tour of the country, from the summer of 2022 until the fall 2023 elections. We are diverse, we will argue a lot, but we know one thing: this government must go, he said. The European political elite assisted him in this. Polish voters, like their Hungarian counterparts, were blackmailed with the threat that Warsaw would only receive its EU funds if they replaced the Polish right wing government, which had built its policy on supporting families, strengthening Christian values, and representing the national interest. 

As soon as the Tusk government came to power, it immediately began to repay the debt, which Polish voters are paying for. The sudden opening of the Brussels money taps does not bring the funds due to the people, but is taking place under scandalous circumstances for purposes that are causing no small scandal. The national debt has skyrocketed, even though the most important investments in the national interest have been put on hold. Gender propaganda has crept into schools, and the government is building migrant centers. Donald Tusk and his colleagues are repeatedly violating constitutional rules in order to extend their power as much as possible; they are persecuting not only their political opponents, but also ordinary citizens who stand up for their sovereignist convictions and Christian values, or who dare to criticize the left. Meanwhile, many of the promises made to voters have remained empty words. Not even a third of the "100 concrete promises" announced for the first hundred days have been fulfilled. 

No wonder voters woke up and elected Karol Nawrocki, a sovereignist president who may be able to stop the government's rampage. But Poles, who paid a high price for believing in Tusk, who preached love but actually incited hatred, will have to wait another two and a half years for real change. Hungarians can learn all the more from the Polish example, which Péter Magyar has admitted he would like to copy. It is not the promises made to the people that would be fulfilled, but Ursula von der Leyen, Manfred Weber, and Volodymyr Zelensky who would be the first to cash in on their support. EU funds would dry up, and the austerity measures that were tried to be kept secret would come to pass.