Presidential candidates Pavel and Babiš visit Hungary

Presidential candidates Petr Pavel and Andrej Babiš both set off on Thursday morning on separate trips to Hungary. While Mr. Babiš went to the Hungarian-Serbian border to meet the Hungarian president and the Serbian prime minister, retired army general Pavel said via a Facebook video on his way to Hungary that the purpose of his trip is to show Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's true face and to draw attention to the dangers of populism.

Mr. Pavel met with opposition journalists, academics and representatives of the non-profit sector in Budapest. He described himself as a counterbalance to the political direction represented by Mr. Orbán and Mr. Babiš.