Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has suggested that Poland’s government and its prime minister, Donald Tusk, were installed by the European Union as part of a plot to remove the country’s previous right-wing populist leadership.

Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban alleged on Wednesday that the European Union executive was trying to overthrow his government and impose a "puppet" administration on Budapest, likening his protest to the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban launched into his familiar anti-European Union rhetoric targeting the opposition on Wednesday as an opinion poll showed the upstart party of his rival Peter Magyar taking its first-ever lead.