Hungary: opposition chooses a candidate “conservative and believer” against Viktor Orban

Peter MARKI-ZAY, 49, won Sunday 17 October the second round of primary primary for the legislative levels planned in the spring of 2022. He will be the single candidate of six left-wing parties to a training formerly Neonazie.

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A province mayor, “conservative and believer” against Viktor Orban. Peter Marki-Zay, 49, won hands on Sunday 17 October The second round of the Hungarian opposition primary for the legislative elections scheduled for the spring of 2022. First historical, this primary gathered more than 600 000 Hungarian for Designate a single candidate of six opposition parties from the left to a training formerly neonazie to try to beat the nationalist prime minister who has been able to discontinue since 2010 this country of 9.8 million inhabitants.

Depending on the final results, Mr. Marki-Zay got 56.7% of the vote against his opponent, the Klara Dobrev Social Democratic MEP. The latter recognized his defeat by immediately promising to tackle behind the winner “to undo the Viktor Orban regime”. With this alliance, which he described as “pure coalition”, “we will be able to restore freedom in this country,” promised the candidate designated before a border of supporters gathered on Sunday night in the streets of Budapest. According to polls, the opposition is on elbow-to-elbow with the Fidesz of the outgoing Prime Minister and has a chance to beat him, for the first time in twelve years.

Gold with his conservative convictions, this Fervent Catholic, father of seven children, himself former Fidesz voter, presents a profile difficult to attack for a man like Viktor Orban who proclaims the best defender of a “Christian Europe” and conservative “. “Their attacks can not walk against me”, insured Mr. Marki-Zay Sunday night, aware that it was why he won a spectacular victory during this primary where he faced national political figures Like Budapest’s ecologist mayor, Gergely Karacsony, or Klara Dobrev, supported by the Left Party Democratic Coalition led by her husband and former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, the favorite enemy of M. Orban.

Archetype of the new proeuropean line and anti-corruption

Simple Mayor of a municipality of 43,000 inhabitants of south-east of Hungary, Hodmezovasarhely, Mr MARKI-ZAY has managed to win without means and at the head of his micro-party baptized everything The world for Hungary by rewriting the local feat that had allowed it to be elected in 2018 in this fief of the former Cabinet of Viktor Orban. When Le Monde had encountered, freshly elected, in his offices, he had drawn up a long plea to repeat at the national level the opposition union that had allowed him to win. “Such an alliance is not only possible, but it is necessary to beat Orban,” he argued.

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