Dobrev, Karácsony and Márki-Zay proceed to 2dn round of opposition primaries, Orbán pays extra money to the retired, Mészáros wins really big, and far-right extremists arrested
Hungary was the only of the EU's 27 member nations not to back the statement. Foreign Minister Szijjártó said such statements are "one-sided." This week's InsightHungary newsletter.
The Hungarian capital’s mayor Gergely Karácsony has confirmed his widely expected candidacy for the pre-election of opposition parties for the prime ministerial post.
“We have one life and one country,” said Karácsony, speaking in his hometown of Nyírtass, putting the unification of the country as his goal.
According to the candidate favoured by the polls, “perhaps the biggest of many troubles is that we feel Hungary to be less and less our common homeland, that Hungary is one and indivisible; we increasingly feel that our country is divided to the extreme”.
All of Hungary’s six biggest oppositions parties – centre-left’s MSZP and Demokratikus Koalíció, the green LMP and Párbeszéd, the liberal Momentum and far-right-turned-conservative Jobbik – have previously agreed to put forward only one candidate against Fidesz in all 106 electoral districts, a joint prime ministerial candidate, a common electoral programme and a common list.