The heterogeneous coalition, which hoped to beat the nationalist leader, could not survive his defeat in the legislative elections.
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The searments of the division appeared in the open from the evening of the rout. Sunday, April 3, when Peter Marki-Zay, the leader of the Hungarian opposition, is mounted on the scene of the Junium of Budapest where he had organized his election evening, he was alone with his wife and children to recognize his Heavy defeat against Viktor Orban in a sinister atmosphere. Of the six heads of opposition parties who supported him for this election finally won with more than 54% of the votes by the outgoing nationalist prime minister, only two came for a brief statement: the Mayor of Budapest (ecologist), Gergely Karacsony , and MEP Anna Donath, head of the Liberal Party Momentum.
On the other hand, the leaders of the two most powerful parties of this unprecedented coalition, who had hoped to bring Mr. Orban after twelve years of power, were discreet. And on Monday, Ferenc Gyurcsany, head of the democratic coalition (DK, left), and Peter Jakab, president of Jobbik, a training formerly extreme right, have released the knives against their candidate of the day before. “He was not the best captain,” said Gyurcsany; “He caused the fall of the opposition,” said Jakab, about this Catholic Mayor of a small provincial city, designated adversary of Mr. Orban following an unprecedented primary in October 2021.
Choose precisely for its moderate conservative profile, fiercely anti-corruption and proeuropean, Mr. Marki-Zay, 49, has failed to convince the electorate it was exactly supposed to seduce: the right-wing voters disappointed By the Fidesz of M. Orban and dangled by the endemic corruption of his entourage. But between the previous legislatives of 2018 and those of April 3, the opposition finally lost more than 800,000 votes, above all in the Hungarian campaigns. The unique list got only a humiliating score, gathering 34.35% of the votes.
“Illusion”
This defeat is partly explained by the provocative statements and the gaffes of Mr. Marki-Zay, as well as by the lack of solidarity of the parties supposed to support him. But if the Hungarian opposition had anticipated a short defeat – that it intended to give the flagrant inequality of access to the media denounced by OSCE observers – the magnitude of the defeat against the Fidesz the force now at an in-depth challenge. “The explanation is not only due to the functioning of the system, the benefit of power resources or a few sentences delivered during the campaign and falsely distorted by propaganda”, has recognized M me Donath.
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