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Hungary and Serbia’s elections: Will the Ukraine war impact votes?

Two elections mark two crucial opportunities to halt Europe’s drift towards authoritarianism. But war in Ukraine adds an extra obstacle

Hungary and Serbia’s elections: Will the Ukraine war impact votes?
Aleksandar Vucic and Viktor Orban attend the inauguration ceremony of the Belgrade-Novi Sad section of the Belgrade-Budapest railway, 19 March, 2022.
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“War in Ukraine is really bad for this election,” says Biljana Stojković, speaking to me from Vranje in the south of Serbia, which she’s visiting as part of her campaign to be the country’s president.

As a human rights and anti-war activist, she says she has spent much of her life talking with people in the streets across her country. She clearly loves it.

“I meet people every day. They want something to change. It fills me with energy.”