Six parties from across the political spectrum banded together to pick Catholic conservative Peter Marki-Zay as their candidate in the 2022 election.
Peter Marki-Zay, a conservative small-town mayor who was once considered an outsider, won the second round of the primary with 57 percent of the vote. “We have to move forward together,” he told reporters before the results came in.
An observant Catholic father of seven, Marki-Zay, 47, presented himself as the stronger of two finalists to run against Orban because he would be challenging him from the right rather than the left. His opponent, Klara Dobrev, from the left-wing Democratic Coalition congratulated him on his win.
Marki-Zay has proved he can win against Fidesz. In 2018, when he was a little-known independent, he won a major upset in the mayoral race in the southern town of Hodmezvasarhely, which had been considered a stronghold for Orban’s party.“He has shown that Fidesz can be defeated in a rural district, and this is a must for the opposition,” Gyori said. “It’s not enough to win the urban areas.”Marki-Zay’s win in Hodmezvasarhely made beating Orban by joining forces appear to be possible.
Until now, the presence of the far-right Jobbik party had prevented such cooperation on a national level, but it has rebranded in recent years and said it is moving to the center, making it more palatable for other parties to work with it.April will see the tactic put to the test for the first time in national parliamentary elections. With electoral map boundaries adjusted by the ruling party, Laszlo said, the opposition will need to win the popular vote by more than a few points.
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